Re: Query - Regarding strange behaviour.

[linux-os]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Tim Schmielau wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Pankaj Agarwal wrote:
>
> > In my system there's a strange behaviour.... its not allowing me to create
> > any file in /usr/bin even as root. Its chmod is set to 755. Its even not
> > allowing me to change the chmod value of /usr/bin. The strangest part which
> > i felt is ...its shows the owner and group as root when i issue command
> > "ls -ld /usr/bin" and not allowing root to create any file or directory
> > under /usr/bin and not even allowing to change the chmod value. The error is
> > access permission denied... I can change the chmod value of /usr and other
> > directories under /usr/...but not of bin....
>
> Maybe /usr is mounted read-only?

Hmmm, are distros still 'slicing up' the root file-system?
Good point!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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