ln: Operation not permitted

[cgswong]

I'm trying to create a symbolic link using the statement:

ln -s oracle.rdbms.lsm/lsm/stage_tmp/lsm /stage/components/lsm

But I get an 'Operation not permitted' error. cpio gave the same error during extraction of the .cpio file. I tried creating a hard link as well but got a 'hard link not allowed' message.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks and regards.

 

[d3funct]

Check the permissions of the file you're trying to link, if you're not doing it as root, it could be that you don't have the correct permissions for read or write of the file. d3funct
zimmer.jon@cfwy.com
The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.

 

[cgswong]

I am doing the link as the root user....any other suggestions/thoughts please?

Thanks.

 

[cgswong]

Oh, I forgot to mention that I'm doing the link to a directory, i.e. the target is a directory not a file. Hope this helpd some....

Regards.