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From: "M. Strobel" <strobel@example.com>
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Subject: Re: Create in a root directory (Linux)
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 12:12:30 +0100
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Date: 2015-11-03T12:12:30+01:00
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On 29.10.2015 08:00, comicfanzine@gmail.com wrote:
> Le mercredi 28 octobre 2015 18:31:29 UTC+1, comicf...@gmail.com a =C3=A9=
crit :
>> Hi ,
>> I want to create a file in a root directory : "/"
>> And of course i am root . How can i proceed ? i always get the error :=
 "permission denied" .
>>
>> Here is the code that i tried :
>>
>> [code]WITH Ada.Text_IO ;  USE Ada.Text_IO ;=20
>>
>> PROCEDURE TestFichier IS
>>
>>    MonFichier : File_type ;=20
>>   =20
>> BEGIN=20
>>    Create( MonFichier,Name =3D> " /clone.adb");
>>    close(MonFichier);
>> END TestFichier ;
>=20
> Solved ! The solution was to execute the program in the terminal with "=
sudo" . That didn't work because i had execute the program from scite(my =
IDE) , and he don't recognize sudo .
>=20

And, by the way, as an admin on Linux I would (in general) never allow su=
ch files on
my systems' root directory. There are quite some "standards" and a lot of=
 best
practices telling where putting which files is best done.

/Str.