Make install Problems

[Adam Cooper]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 13:37, Jay Turner wrote:
> Try creating a symlink in /usr/local/bin/ outside of the install routine .
> . . just run something like 'touch foo; ln -sf foo /usr/local/bin/' and see
> if you get any error messages then.  You'll want to run this as root as
> well.  In addition, check to verify that you do indeed have drive space
> available on that partition.

OK this is that readout (su root) of /usr/local/bin:

	drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        16384 Feb  9 12:51 bin

I am definitely as root:

	uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
	groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel)

Trying this:

> touch foo; ln -sf foo /usr/local/bin/

Results in this:

ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/local/bin/foo' to `foo': Operation not
permitted

I'm tearing my hair out over this. Surely as root I can do any thing I
want. Which is what "drwxr-xr-x" also tells me.

Thanks

Adam Cooper

PS if it helps heres my fstab:

LABEL=/       /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
none          /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
none          /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none          /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hda1/mnt /windows     ntfs	ro,noauto,users,gid=501,umask=0227 0 0
/dev/hda7     /usr/local              vfat    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda6     swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom   udf,iso9660  noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0      /mnt/floppy  auto           noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0