I have a huge problem, some how my /usr/bin directory is write protected. It never used to be, but im not sure when it got write protected. I need to upgrade SpamAssassin, but it can't write to /usr/bin and it has to in order to install. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Thanks
Speed Viper

You will need to be root in order to write to /usr/bin.

The permissions for /usr/bin should be something like I hope this helps
--Ian

Sorry i forgot to say it before but i am loggin in as root. And it doesn't make any differece.

Thanks
Speed Viper

Well try chaging the permissions by logging as root:

chmod 755 /usr/bin

Further, check how the /usr partition (in case its is separate partition) is being mounted in /etc/fstab.

HTH

When i run the command "chmod 755 /usr/bin" as root, i get this error message "chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/bin': Operation not permitted".

This is what my /etc/fstab file looks like
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /ftp ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0


Thanks
Josh

I got it fixed. I had to issue the command "lsattr -d /usr/bin" and the attributes s i a where set. So in order to fix it, i had to issue the command fsck and when that check ok i had to issue the command "chattr -RV -sia /usr/bin" to remove the attributes.

Thanks for the help.
Speed Viper