Dear Seth, seth vidal wrote: > > Error moving headers to .oldheaders, fatal > > yum-arch doesn't need to run as root, in fact, I almost never run it as > root. Excellent. > So this seems just like a permissions problem on your directory. > > Try this for me in that dir as that user: > > mkdir foo > mv foo notfoo $ ls -l total 40 drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 28 07:31 athlon drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 8192 Aug 27 17:33 headers drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 8192 Aug 28 07:31 i386 drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 28 07:31 i586 drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 28 07:31 i686 drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 11 22:00 noarch drwxr-sr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Jun 5 07:49 oldpackages drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 28 07:31 SRPMS [nicku@nicksbox] /var/ftp/pub/redhat-9/updates $ mkdir foo [nicku@nicksbox] /var/ftp/pub/redhat-9/updates $ mv foo notfoo [nicku@nicksbox] /var/ftp/pub/redhat-9/updates $ ls -l total 44 drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 28 07:31 athlon drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 8192 Aug 27 17:33 headers drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 8192 Aug 28 07:31 i386 drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 28 07:31 i586 drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 28 07:31 i686 drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 11 22:00 noarch drwxrwsr-x 2 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 28 10:51 notfoo drwxr-sr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Jun 5 07:49 oldpackages drwxrwsr-x 3 nicku nicku 4096 Aug 28 07:31 SRPMS > do those commands succeed? Yes. Notice that I have made the directories set group ID. Is that a problem for yum-arch? -- Nick Urbanik RHCE nicku(at)vtc.edu.hk Dept. of Information & Communications Technology Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi) Tel: (852) 2436 8576, (852) 2436 8713 Fax: (852) 2436 8526 PGP: 53 B6 6D 73 52 EE 1F EE EC F8 21 98 45 1C 23 7B ID: 7529555D GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24
