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Re: [LUG] cp permission?

 

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:16:21 +0100
"Jonathan Roberts" <jonathan.roberts.uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone could advise me why I'm getting a permission
> denied message when attempting to run the command
> 
>  cp -a [...]
> 
> I'm running it as root too, so I don't see that there should be a problem here?!

Depends what you are trying to copy - ordinary files or device nodes?

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