Re: sshfs and sed -i

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:27:18PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> On lenny, I have mounted a remote directory via sshfs:
> $ sshfs user@remote:/path/to/dir dir
> 
> Within dir I can touch, cp, mv or edit files at will (as expected by the
> permissions).
> 
> $ touch testfile
> $ nano testfile
> $ mv testfile testfilea
> $ cp testfilea testfilec
> $ sed s/foo/bar/ testfilec
> baz baz bar bar
> bar jalsdk asiduf alhfd a
> 
> $ sed -i s/foo/bar/ testfilec
> sed: cannot rename ./sedz1MMtd: Operation not permitted
> 
> However, 'sed -i' leads to above error message. What am I doing wrong here?
> 
> The same sed command works fine, if I copy the file to a local directory.
> 
> Thanks for any help or pointers!

What does "ls -l testfilec" show you about the permissions and
ownership on the file?

Regards
Johann



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