maemo.org - Talk - driftnet permission denied

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Originally Posted by gibman (Post 1318269)

run driftnet in n900 as root and get permission denied. I have searched online and found nothing. (driftnet is already chmod x)

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Originally Posted by amirulrb (Post 1430283)

i got the same problem..have a fix yet?

Yeah if youre executing it by just tryping driftnet you get that error because youre trying to execute a directory. The package in repos have a wrong sysmlink (if not intentional) of a directory /opt/driftnet/ to /usr/bin/driftnet.
It should actually contain a sysmlink of binary /opt/driftnet/driftnet to /usr/bin/driftnet.
But you should be able to use driftnet by typing :

Code:

driftnet/driftnet

But if you dont want to keep typing that instead of just driftnet, removing the original sysmlink :

Code:

rm /usr/bin/driftnet

And doing a sysmlink of binary :

Code:

ln -s /opt/driftnet/driftnet /usr/bin/driftnet

should make it work, you should then be able to use it by just typing driftnet.