On 31-Aug-2009, Ron Crummett wrote: | Okay - | | In regards to the earlier question, I am running Ubuntu Jaunty. | | 2009/8/30 Tatsuro MATSUOKA <[email protected]> | | | > The pkg install command use temporary directory to extract a package, | > carry out configureation and | > make binaries. | > | > I suspect that your temporary directory does allow 'w' attribution. | > Please type tmpnam at the octave prompt | > octave>tmpnam | > | > and get the name the temporary directory name | > | > and confirm the attribution of the temporary directory | > octave>ls -l (tmp diretoryname)/.. | > | >> tmpnam | ans = /tmp/oct-SZWwgP | | >> ls -l /tmp/oct-SZWwgP/.. | ls: cannot access /tmp/oct-SZWwgP/..: No such file or directory | error: ls: command exited abnormally with status 2 | error: called from: | error: /usr/share/octave/3.2.0/m/miscellaneous/ls.m at line 66, column 2 | | For what it's worth, every time I type tmpnam I get a different temporary | directory. Don't know if that helps or not, but I figure I'll mention it.
It's supposed to be a file name, not a directory name, and it should be different each time. It should not exist because tmpnam does not create the file, it just generates a name. jwe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Octave-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/octave-dev
