gpg: failed to create temporary file '/var/lib/lurker/.#lk0x573c7100.hantslug.org.uk.26522': Permission denied
gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/lurker/pubring.gpg': Permission denied
gpg: Signature made Sat Aug 29 11:48:57 2009 BST
gpg: using DSA key 20ACB3BE515C238D
gpg: Can't check signature: No public key
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 11:15:34AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:10:14 +0100
> Lisi <hantslug@???> wrote:
>
> Hello Lisi,
>
> > /home/./peter/.thunderbird/8qfkppsa.default/Mail/mailhost.zen.co.uk/Inbox
>
> should probably read;
>
> /home/peter/.thunderbird/8qfkppsa.default/Mail/mailhost.zen.co.uk/Inbox
>
> Note '/.' between '/home' & '/peter' has been removed. The '.' has a
> specific meaning. When placed in a path it will do odd things.
Umm... what "odd things", exactly?
hrm@selene:~ $ cp -r /home/./hrm/Mail/hlug/ /tmp
hrm@selene:~ $
Works for me. The . is simply a reference to the directory that
contains it, so it effectively means "here", and when used in a path as
above is a no-op.
Even if it did have some other semantics with respect to path
names, it wouldn't cause an I/O error, which usually indicates some
deeper issue like an unrecoverable read error on the disk.
Hugo.
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