I'm trying to install GNU tar-1.28 and when I type ./configure I get:  ./configure: line 3064: config.log: Permission denied ./configure: line 3074: config.log: Permission denied line 3064: | #define HAVE_DECL_FWRITE_UNLOCKED 1 line 3074: | #define HAVE_GETCWD 1   Can anyone help me fix these errors?
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I installed python 3.6.1 from python.org and extracted the file. Then I did:    cd Desktop cd Python-3.6.1 ./configure   But then I got an error:   ./configure: line 2328 config.log: Permission denied ./configure: line 2338 config.log: Permission denied   What can I do to fix this?
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When using sudo to allow edits to files, I regularly get 'permission denied'.  For example, my mouse is jittery and sluggish, so I want to disable polling:  sudo echo "options drm_kms_helper poll=N"&gt;/etc/modprobe.d/local.conf   I'm prompted for a password, and then get:  bash: /etc/modprobe.d/local.conf: Permission denied   So I tried to do a temporary change to disable polling by using:  sudo echo N&gt; /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/poll   Yet again the system responded with:  bash: /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/poll: Permission denied   Any ideas?
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Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong, what this is, or how to fix it? I'm running Fedora 18 and getting the error shown  [root@servername /]# find . -name ngirc find: `./run/user/1000/gvfs': Permission denied [root@servername /]#  [root@thinktank /]# pwd / [root@thinktank /]# ls -ltr ./run/user/1000 ls: cannot access ./run/user/1000/gvfs: Permission denied total 0 d?????????? ? ?    ?      ?            ? gvfs lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root  17 May 28 12:30 X11-display -&gt; /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 drwx------. 2 kal  kal  120 May 28 12:30 keyring-QjDw4b drwx------. 2 kal  kal   40 May 28 12:30 gvfs-burn drwx------. 2 kal  kal   60 May 28 12:30 krb5cc_5f0bcaf94f916d6b61696e2251a4dbb3 drwx------. 2 kal  kal   60 May 28 18:25 dconf
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Some of the files in my directories under Linux have a . at the end of the permissions listing.     What does the dot mean at the end of -rw-r--r--?  How do you set it with chmod?
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Code   find / -name netcdf   Output  find: `/root/.dbus': Permission denied find: `/root/.gconf': Permission denied find: `/root/.gconfd': Permission denied find: `/root/.gnome': Permission denied find: `/root/.gnome2': Permission denied find: `/root/.gnome2_private': Permission denied
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Why does the Unix permission system use 1 2 3 4... values?  Why not just 3 bits; a bit for each setting read write and execute. for example  ( rwx ) 110 =&gt; r=1 w=1 x=0
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I tried to fix my hard drive using Ubuntu but I encountered an error message and didn't know how to proceed. I need to fix my bad sectors   fsck /dev/sdb   fsck from util-linux 2.20.1   e2fsck 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)   fsck.ext2: Permission denied while trying to open /dev/sdb   You must have r/w access to the filesystem or be root
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Every time I try to install ANYTHING with apt-get,i get this error  E: Waited for /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true but it wasn't there      E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true    I have looked at many forums but none of them seem to have any answer.  Any help would be much appreciated at this time!       (everything must be done via command line, 13.04 server)   Tried Braiam's command, this was the output + command:  sudo sh -c "echo 'DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-pr econfigure --apt || true";};' &gt;&gt; /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf"                  [sudo] password for swech:                                                       --apt: 1: --apt: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string                        -bash: true;};' &gt;&gt; /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/70debconf: No such file or directory
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How can I execute a file without giving myself execute permissions (with chmod u+x) for it?   If I try and tick the 'Allow executing file as program' checkmark, the checkmark is immediately removed.
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I can't seem to edit and save config files in the root system (eg: /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.config); it just says "permission denied" or the save option is blocked in the text editor.  I'm pretty sure I'm a root user, but how do I make sure? If I am a root user, how do I fix this?
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See Also:          I changed file permissions recursively on the root directory / by executing sudo chmod -R / 777, and after that my system won't boot (I'm getting a lot of "permission denied" errors).  Please help.
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I changed permissions of a file (chmod g+w testfile) and running ls -l testfile gives:  -rwxrwxr-x 1 user1 user1 0 2011-01-24 20:36 testfile   I then added a user to that group ("/etc/group" has user1:x:1000:user2 line), but am failing to edit that file as user2. Why is this so?
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I've recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my laptop, but I can't do anything with my 1.5TB external drive, and my 500GB because I don't have write permission. Are there any specific commands I can use in the terminal to set the read/write permissions?  The external is NTFS, and the 500GB is ext4.
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The logged in user is a member of a group that has a write permission on a folder. But when this user is trying to write something, "permission is denied".  The log below summarizes the question:  subv:/www/tracer/ whoami frank subv:/www/tracer/ subv:/www/tracer/ ls -ltr  total 4 drwxrwxr-x 2 root tracer 4096 Jan 20 12:25 convert.tracer.com subv:/www/tracer/ groups frank frank : frank tracer subv:/www/tracer/ &gt; convert.tracer.com/test -bash: convert.tracer.com/test: Permission denied subv:/www/tracer/   Output of "ls -bail /www/tracer/convert.tracer.com/":  subv:~/ ls -bail /www/tracer/convert.tracer.com/ total 8 38010883 drwxrwxr-x 2 root tracer 4096 Jan 20 12:25 . 38010882 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root    4096 Jan 20 12:25 .. subv:~/
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I am trying to install gtk-server. First I typed the command ./configure and then make, but when I typed command make install it gave me this error:  osama@osama-HP-Compaq-6910p:~/Downloads/gtk-server-2.3.1-sr$ make install /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/gtk-server': Permission denied mkdir -p /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/install -c gtk-server /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/install -c stop-gtk-server /usr/local/bin /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/stop-gtk-server': Permission denied make: *** [install] Error 1
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This error occurs whenever I try to work with sudo. I changed the permissions of /var/ folder to 777 and I think this causes the error. Please help me get back a functional sudo and /var.
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I have the following command:  find / -name libGL.so.1   Which returns lots of lines with "Permission denied". I want to exclude such lines, so I added the following:  find / -name libGL.so.1 | grep -v 'denied'   But the output is the same - my grep -v 'denied' is not filtering out the lines with Permission denied. I've tried many variations, looked over grep tutorials, but I cannot figure out the problem. Any suggestions?