03-10-2017
Hi,
This looks like a very AIX-specific IBM-style error message that's more detailed than what I've ever seen mv give for a simple file permissions issue on Solaris or Linux, but I'm inclined to believe that it means what it says it does. Either you don't have permission to copy the file into the destination directory, or you don't have permission to remove it from the source directory.
So unless it's some error message specific to role-based access control on AIX or something equally unique (in which case someone familiar with the intricacies of AIX can hopefully help, as I'm not really experienced with it at all) I'd start with checking that.
One easy test: if you try doing this exact mv command manually at the shell prompt, does it work ? If not, can you copy the file into the destination directory ? And if you can copy it, can you remove the original ? Doing this kind of basic step-by-step debugging should hopefully reveal where the problem lies.
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dh_fixperms
DH_FIXPERMS(1) Debhelper DH_FIXPERMS(1)
NAME
dh_fixperms - fix permissions of files in package build directories
SYNOPSIS
dh_fixperms [debhelperoptions] [-Xitem]
DESCRIPTION
dh_fixperms is a debhelper program that is responsible for setting the permissions of files and directories in package build directories to
a sane state -- a state that complies with Debian policy.
dh_fixperms makes all files in usr/share/doc in the package build directory (excluding files in the examples/ directory) be mode 644. It
also changes the permissions of all man pages to mode 644. It removes group and other write permission from all files. It removes execute
permissions from any libraries, headers, Perl modules, or desktop files that have it set. It makes all files in the standard bin and sbin
directories, usr/games/ and etc/init.d executable (since v4). Finally, it removes the setuid and setgid bits from all files in the package.
When the Rules-Requires-Root field has the (effective) value of binary-targets, dh_fixperms will also reset the ownership of all paths to
"root:root".
OPTIONS
-Xitem, --exclude item
Exclude files that contain item anywhere in their filename from having their permissions changed. You may use this option multiple
times to build up a list of things to exclude.
SEE ALSO
debhelper(7)
This program is a part of debhelper.
AUTHOR
Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
11.1.6ubuntu2 2018-05-10 DH_FIXPERMS(1)