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Re: [Sheflug] Minicom

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 15:12 +0000, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> I've tried to do 'chmod +x /var/lock'  but I'm still getting the same 
> error message.  Anyone know how to fix this so that I can login to my 
> iPAQ and finish the upgrade?


Do 'ls -ld /var/lock' to see what the permissions are on the directory,
and add whatever's needed.

Here I get: 

drwxrwxrwt  4 root root 4096 2006-01-04 19:54 /var/lock/

... e.g., 'chmod 1777 /var/lock'

Cheers,

Alex.

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