I always thought that /usr/local was defined to be an area left alone by 
the operating system.  For many years, we have made it a symlink to a 
read-only directory in AFS space.  This has worked fine - until now. 
When I tried to update the "filesystem" package, it failed because it 
tried to do chmods on (at least) /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/etc.  Why 
is it doing this?  Is /usr/local no longer truly local?

thanks,

Steve Gaarder
System Administrator, Dept of Mathematics
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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