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Iraf install problem

Uthra Rao wrote on Aug 19, 2008

I am trying to install iraf 2.14 on solaris 10 sparc machine. I have a problem “Permission denied”. I am logged in as iraf user.

% pwd
/data/iraf/iraf

%ls -la
total 42374
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 512 Aug 19 11:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 512 Aug 19 11:10 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 iraf daemon 21665744 Aug 19 10:42 as.ssol.gen.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 iraf daemon 512 Aug 19 10:58 local

% gunzip as.ssol.gen.gz
gunzip: as.ssol.gen: Permission denied

Please help.

Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Aug 19, 2008

You're current directory is owned by root but you are logged in as the iraf user and so can't create the uncompressed new file in that directory. Do a
"chown iraf:iraf ." as root in that directory to change the ownership.

-Mike

Last post on Aug 19, 2008