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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news-pull.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-stk-11.sprintlink.net!news.onramp.net!usenet From: Dave Littell <dlittell@onramp.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: can't move /kernel Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 21:31:31 -0600 Organization: We don't need no steenkin' organization! Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3307D113.2E64@onramp.net> References: <32FF806E.41C67EA6@zxcv-pc.jumpnet.com> <3302D04D.1667@visigenic.com> <5dvht8$6gt@synge.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp3-20.dllstx.onramp.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:35664 David Malone wrote: > > Tim O'Neil <toneil@visigenic.com> writes: > > >Curt Finch wrote: > >> > >> why can't i do this? i booted off of kernel.new > >> > >> # mv kernel kernel.old > >> mv: rename kernel to kernel.old: Operation not permitted > >> # id > >> uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 4(tty), > >> 5(operator), 20(staff), 31(guest) > >> # uname -a > >> FreeBSD pnk.com 2.1.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.1.5-RELEASE #1: Mon Feb 10 > >> 13:19:32 CST 1997 curt@pnk.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/CURT i386 > >> # > > >su to root first helps. alot. > > His uid is zero - he is root. He should check the > man page for chflags - Its a common catch in FreeBSD. > > David. He probably used "make install" to build and place a new kernel instead of the more traditional "make; cp /kernel /kernel.old; cp kernel /kernel". "make install" jerks with the flags and thus forces you to keep doing "make install". Nice little trap. Dave