Not able to give write permission to Folder

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#1

Hi,

I am not able to execute below scripts for Flume lab:

[85mesanta8172@cxln4 ~]$ sudo chmod a+w -R /flume
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[sudo] password for 85mesanta8172:
Sorry, user 85mesanta8172 is not allowed to execute ‘/bin/chmod a+w -R /flume’ as root on cxln4.

[85mesanta8172@cxln4 ~]$ hdfs dfs -mkdir -p /flume/weblogs
mkdir: Permission denied: user=85mesanta8172, access=WRITE, inode="/flume/weblogs":hdfs:hdfs:drwxr-xr-x

#2

You don’t have any permission to create/change files at level “/”. Only your home directory is writable by you.