[nmglug] cp ain't working

Andrew Farnsworth farnsaw at stonedoor.com
Mon Dec 7 05:51:59 PST 2009


On Lun Dic  7  8:49 , a <akaluta at taosnet.com> sent:

>Good Day:
>
>RRDp::start "/usr/local/rrdtool/bin/rrdtool"; is a file in Digitemp
>README.
>
>I wish to cp  /usr/bin/rrdtool (exacutable)
>to /usr/local/bin/rrdtool/bin/rrdtool.
>
>results:
>a at a-desktop:~$ cp /usr/bin/rrdtool /usr/local/bin/rrdtool/bin/
>cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/rrdtool/bin/': No such
>file or directory
>a at a-desktop:~$ mkdir /usr/local/bin/rrdtool/bin
>mkdir: cannot create directory `/usr/local/bin/rrdtool/bin': No such
>file or directory.
>                   
>                             Why_Oh_Why,doesn't it work,Anthony K


try the mkdir command again with the -p flag so it creates all parents as needed.

Andrew Farnsworth



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