Fernando Gleiser wrote: > ----- Original Message ---- >> From: Bob McConnell <rmcconne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Thu, January 14, 2010 10:44:59 AM >> Subject: Problem with checkinstall >> >> I installed checkinstall 1.6.2 on CentOS 5.4 VM (VMWare Server on >> WinXP). After getting the dependencies installed it compiled with no >> errors. But when I run it in its own source directory, I keep getting an >> error that I can't track down. The message is: >> >> install: cannot change ownership of '/usr/local/lib/installwatch.so': No >> such file or directory. >> >> But not only does the file exist, it has the correct permissions and >> creation time. I am running this as root. I did change the permissions >> on both make and install to 0755, but that did not help. The command >> line is: > > > Is SELinux enabled? it sounds like the typical SELinux-related problem. > > what does "getenforce" say? > > check the output of "ls -lZ /usr/local/lib/ " to get the file's context 'getenforce' returns "Disabled" 'ls -lZ /usr/local/lib/' returns drwxr-xr-x root root checkinstall -rwxr-xr-x root root installwatch.so 'ls -alZ' adds current and parent owned by root.root with context: system_u:object_r:lib_t:s0 . system_u:object_r:usr_t:s0 .. Bob McConnell N2SPP _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos