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RE: [cobalt-users] I'm an idiot - please help me



> > ls -alR / > full.ls.listing.txt
>
> Rodolfo,
> When I batted myself over the head and did this as root, all went well
> until...
> [root /root]# ls -alR / > full.ls.listing.txt
> ls: /proc/10/exe: Permission denied
> ls: /proc/10/root: Permission denied
> ls: /proc/10/cwd: Permission denied
> ...

Everything in /proc acts like a file to maintain the Linux convention
that everything is a file. However, it's all created/maintained in
realtime by the kernel. They're not real files, and you'd never need
to/be able to back them up anyway.

Safe to ignore.

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Rodolfo J. Paiz
rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>