no such file or directory

[David Christensen]

On 7/15/21 7:43 PM, pkagan at videotron.ca wrote:
> Hello I get the following error: no such file or directory when I try to copy files over from one directory to another...
> 
> 
> 
> root@:/usr/local/news/samples/feeder+reader # realpath dserver.hosts
> /usr/local/news/samples/feeder+reader/dserver.hosts
> root@:/usr/local/news/samples/feeder+reader # ls -l
> total 62
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 430 Jul 2 18:26 README
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 3047 Jul 2 18:26 dactive.kp
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 39985 Jul 2 18:26 dcontrol.ctl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 2590 Jul 2 18:26 dexpire.ctl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 1132 Jul 2 18:26 diablo.config
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 470 Jul 2 18:26 distrib.pats
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 551 Jul 2 18:26 dnewsfeeds
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 415 Jul 2 18:26 dreader.access
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 134 Jul 2 18:26 dserver.hosts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 961 Jul 2 18:26 dspool.ctl
> -rw-r--r-- 1 news news 1930 Jul 2 18:26 moderators
> root@:/usr/local/news/samples/feeder+reader # chmod 755 *.*
> root@:/usr/local/news/samples/feeder+reader # ls
> README dexpire.ctl dnewsfeeds dspool.ctl
> dactive.kp diablo.config dreader.access moderators
> dcontrol.ctl distrib.pats dserver.hosts
> root@:/usr/local/news/samples/feeder+reader # cp *.* /usr/local/news
> cp: /usr/local/news/dactive.kp: No such file or directory
> cp: /usr/local/news/dcontrol.ctl: No such file or directory
> cp: /usr/local/news/dexpire.ctl: No such file or directory
> cp: /usr/local/news/diablo.config: No such file or directory
> cp: /usr/local/news/distrib.pats: No such file or directory
> cp: /usr/local/news/dreader.access: No such file or directory
> cp: /usr/local/news/dserver.hosts: No such file or directory
> cp: /usr/local/news/dspool.ctl: No such file or directory


Please enter the following commands into a root terminal and copy and 
paste the console session into a reply:

# freebsd-version; uname -a ; echo $SHELL

# ls -l -a -d /usr/local/news

# ls -l -a /usr/local/news/*.*

# ls -l -a -d /usr/local/news/samples

# ls -l -a -d /usr/local/news/samples/feeder+reader

# ls -l -a /usr/local/news/samples/feeder+reader/*.*


David