unable to copy file to directory

[robert_15]

Hi all

Recently I installed Oracle8i onto my HP-UX machine. Somehow one particular file was not installed properly. Oracle sent me the correct file which is libn8.a (an archive file). I tried to ftp it directly into the required directory(/u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/lib) as the root user. This produced an error despite that directory having 'Others Write' privileges.

So I ftp-ed to the root directory, changed the owner of the file and tried to 'cp libn8.a /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/lib' as oracle user. This error appeared'cp: bad copy to /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/liblibn8.a : write: No such device or address.

Any ideas? Appreciate the time :)

robert

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

Do an ll of the file you want to replace first.
It could be a symbolic link.
I find that Rm -f will always work to remove a file after whilch there should be no problem replacing it.

I recomment copying the replacement file first.
And make sure that you don't run into permission problems by making sure you do a
chown and chmod to appropriate values after.

Later,
Bill

[John Palmer]

Could somebody have set up an alias to cp?
Check with 'whence cp'. Try:
/usr/bin/cp -p libn8.a /u01/app/oracle/product/8.1.6/lib

Regards,
John