make readmes errors

fire jotawski jotawski at gmail.com
Tue Mar 25 03:11:32 PDT 2008


On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 4:44 AM, Lowell Gilbert <
freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> "fire jotawski" <jotawski at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Lowell Gilbert <
> > freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> >
> >> "fire jotawski" <jotawski at gmail.com> writes:
> >>
> >> > my machine is FreeBSD siting.oaep.go.th 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD
> 7.0-RELEASE#3:
> >> > Fri Mar  7 03:20:47 ICT 2008
> >> > root at siting.oaep.go.th:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SITING
> >> > i386
> >> > i try making README.html for all ports but get errors at the last
> state
> >> as
> >> >
> >> > Creating README.html for all ports
> >> > /usr/ports/Tools/make_readmes : Permission denied
> >> > *** Error code 126
> >> >
> >> > please help me in makeing readme.html
> >> > thanks in advance for any hints.
> >>
> >> Sounds like the user running the command doesn't have permissions to
> >> write into the port directories.
> >>
> >
> >
> > no sirs, i use root account for running that command.  anywym i try
> running
> > again with user root.
>
> Even for the root user, there are other possible privilege problems.
> You could be running over NFS, with the UID getting remapped.
> There could be file flags set on some of the files you are changing.
>

thanks indeed but my ports tree is on the same machine not  nfs mounted one.

best regards,
psr


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