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Old 01-29-2009, 03:56 AM   #1
nedzer
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copy error with file ref //


Hi,

I'm installing Business Objects on Red Hat Ent 5.0 (32 bit machine)

I can only partially install the application

The error in the log is

[error] Errcode 1: cp -r /home/o2mars/perl/* /home/o2mars//perl

so this is trying to copy recursively all files from the perl directory to a directory also called perl but down 2 levels in the hierarchy?

I don't get the '//' location reference. Can anyone explain it and how it's buggering up this install?

I think the work around is to manually copy over there files then retry the install.

Thanks for looking at the post.

Cheers,

Last edited by nedzer; 01-29-2009 at 04:00 AM.
 
Old 01-29-2009, 04:03 AM   #2
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Nope. A double slash in a path is ignored and treated as a single one. The error can be that it tries to copy all the files in perl... into perl itself. This is not possible in bash and indeed it is a non-sense. You have to investigate the reason why it put two slashes, anyway. Maybe it searches for a path or directory name stored in an environment variable and maybe that variable is undefined.

Suppose you have a command
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cp -r /home/o2mars/perl/* /home/o2mars/$INSTALL_DIR/perl
if the environment variable INSTALL_DIR has not been previously assigned, the line of code above will be translated as the one reported by the error log. Just an idea.
 
  


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