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From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: rename strangeness, a possible bug
Message-ID: <8352@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 25 Aug 89 08:25:11 GMT
References: <24612@santra.UUCP>
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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In article <24612@santra.UUCP> jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala) writes:
 > jkp@joker.hut.fi 'src' 451: ls -lagF
 > total 4
 > drwxrwxr-x  4 root     staff         512 Aug 25 01:04 ./
 > drwxr-xr-x  6 nobody   wheel         512 Aug 23 23:33 ../
 > drwxr-xr-x  2 haa      staff         512 Aug 24 16:32 OS-hd-fix/
 > drwxrwxr-x  4 jkp      staff         512 Aug 25 01:04 local/
 > jkp@joker.hut.fi 'src' 452: mv OS-hd-fix local
 > mv: OS-hd-fix: rename: Permission denied

You will also get this error message if 'local' contains a non-empty
directory 'OS-hd-fix' for which you do not have execute permission.
And probably in other situations also.
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