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SomeGuyDude

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Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 271

Rankmirrors: permission denied?

[crew@myhost pacman.d]$ cd /etc/pacman.d
[crew@myhost pacman.d]$ sudo cp mirrorlist mirrorlist.backup
[crew@myhost pacman.d]$ sudo rankmirrors -n 6 mirrorlist.backup > mirrorlist
-bash: mirrorlist: Permission denied
[crew@myhost pacman.d]$

I can't seem to fix this.

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Raffles10

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 115

Re: Rankmirrors: permission denied?

Same results when using 'sudo', but works when using root proper 'su'.

shining

Pacman Developer

Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Rankmirrors: permission denied?

Only rankmirrors is run as root, the redirection is still made by the shell running as user.

A work around is to invoke another shell which will be run as root :
sudo sh -c "rankmirrors -n 6 mirrorlist.backup > mirrorlist"

Or you can just redirect the output to a file where you user can write, e.g. /tmp/mirrorlist, then move it.

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tdy

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From: Sacremende

Registered: 2008-12-14

Posts: 440

Re: Rankmirrors: permission denied?

you can also pipe it to tee:

$ rankmirrors -n 6 mirrorlist.backup | sudo tee mirrorlist

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