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dwarf007 09-19-2004 01:53 AM

Cant move a folder to another path?
 
I tried to move a folder to another path but it comes and error of "permission denied".

Can I know what is the thing to wrong? Anyone knows please help. Thanks.....

[eugene@localhost Software]$ mv mysql-max-4.0.21-pc-linux-i686 /usr/local/
mv: cannot move `mysql-max-4.0.21-pc-linux-i686' to `/usr/local/mysql-max-4.0.21-pc-linux-i686': Permission denied

mirradric 09-19-2004 02:05 AM

you probably do not have write permission to /usr/local. try doing it as root.

dwarf007 09-19-2004 02:28 AM

Thanks for the information. I just move the folder to another new folder that I created.

Thanks for the help


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