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redtank1965
 
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Help with Chumby hacker board OS

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Hello,
I purchased a CHB from Adafruit a few years back and am wanting to use it with a webcam. I selected the program Motion to control my webcam, I've been able to do this with other microcontrollers like the Pandaboard. Problem I'm having is being able to write to the /usr/local directory as it is read only. I've tried every technique I can find to change the write permission, but no luck. First of all I'm accessing the OS thru a serial port from my Windows laptop, no problem there, then I do "su -a" and become "root", then I do a "chmod -R 777 /usr/local" and get the read only warning. In order to install Motion, I'm having to install jpep and ffmpeg libraries and they access to /usr/local. Yes, I'm a Linux noob, but am trying.
Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Cris

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Re: Help with Chumby hacker board OS

Post by adafruit_support_mike »

The root user should be able to set permissions on pretty much anything..

What do you get from `df -k`?

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