On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 05:09:09PM +0100, MichaIng wrote: [...] > >>dash: 1: cannot create testfile: Permission denied > > > >Oh, I see. Strange error message though -- I'd expect dash to > >try to open the file in append mode, not to `create' it. > I was also wondering about that, but dash prints this message > regardless if the file exists already or not, if permissions are not > there. Note that creating a new file works fine, removing a file as > well, only writing to an existing file fails, regardless of shell or > originating program. Shot in the dark. Is perchance `noclobber' set? You can test that with `set -o' Other than that, I'd resort to strace in my despair, to actually find out which syscall is returning what at this failure point. Sorry I have no better ideas... Cheers - t
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