[tex-live] updmap and /

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 05:00:14PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:

>     should be a pretty standard RedHat As 4
> 
> tug.org is running RH WS 4, / is not unreadable, and I really doubt WS
> vs. AS makes a difference here.
> 
>     rm (coreutils) 5.2.1
> 
> /bin/rm on tug.org does not show the problem.

It shows the problem:

  $ mkdir noread
  $ mkdir todelete
  $ touch foobar
  $ chmod 100 noread
  $ cd noread
  $ rm ../foobar
  $ rm -r ../todelete
  rm: cannot get current directory: Permission denied
  $ which rm
  /bin/rm
  rm (coreutils) 5.2.1
  [...]

The test machine is tug.org (130.225.2.169).


On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:09:12PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:

> It is NOT rm, it is the 
>       cd /
> that fails ...

The error message of Lars was:

| rm: cannot get current directory: Permission denied

Thus the failing program was "rm", not "cd".
The latter one would fail if the directory misses the executive permission.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>