renaming files from within maxima



Actually, this seems to be the problem.

I logged in as root, changed to the home directory, and the problem
disappeared.

How does one change the permissions on the process?

-sen

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Daniel Lakeland wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 05:38:22PM -0400, sen1 at math.msu.edu wrote:
>> OK,
>>   I found that the fc7 rpm for 19d did install on my system.  I
>>   compiled it into maxima, and there is no difference.
>>
>> Here is the output.
>
> Check to see if permissions are preventing the process from
> overwriting the file. Perhaps the error message is simply
> misleading. This is typical of a permissions problem.
>
>
>
>

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