I get a "permission denied" problem with mv that I don't understand when using mv to rename a directory. I have sufficient priveleges to mv the contents of the directory, and then, when empty, I can mv the directory. Why can I only mv the directory when it's empty, while I can mv the contents of the directory separately?
Here's an illustration; I want to mv directory daily.18 to daily.19: $ ls # No daily.19 here. daily.0 daily.11 daily.14 daily.17 daily.3 daily.6 daily.9 daily.1 daily.12 daily.15 daily.18 daily.4 daily.7 daily.10 daily.13 daily.16 daily.2 daily.5 daily.8 $ whoami rerb $ ls -ld # I have privs to mess around here. drwx------+ 21 rerb Domain Users 0 Feb 4 12:40 . $ ls -ld daily.18 # I've got full perms on daily.18. drwxr-xr-x+ 3 rerb Domain Users 0 Feb 4 12:56 daily.18 $ mv daily.18 daily.19 mv: cannot move `daily.18' to `daily.19': Permission denied $ ls -al daily.18 # What's in daily.18? total 0 drwxr-xr-x+ 3 rerb Domain Users 0 Feb 4 12:56 . drwx------+ 21 rerb Domain Users 0 Feb 4 12:56 .. drwxr-x---+ 53 rerb Domain Users 0 Dec 18 18:02 home $ mv daily.18/home . # I can move the contents of daily.18. $ mv daily.18 daily.19 # I can move daily.18 when it's empty. $ mv home daily.19 # I can move the contents of daily.18 back into daily.19. $ mv daily.19 daily.18 # Why can't I move daily.19 back to daily.18? mv: cannot move `daily.19' to `daily.18': Permission denied $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-5.1 pcrerb1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin Thanks for any answers. - Bob Erb -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
