Can't access /opt/newDirectory

[Patrick Bouldin]

Related to earlier email:

I installed an app called splunk, and it seems to always install here:

/opt/splunk/ (off the root)

However, even with sudo I can't event change into the directory. Why is that? Can the app itself restrict access to that directory as part of set up? I'm doing all this within a fedora-24 template.

Here's the line by line showing this:
[user@fedora-24-work-splunk opt]$ pwd
/opt
[user@fedora-24-work-splunk opt]$ ls
google splunk
[user@fedora-24-work-splunk opt]$ cd splunk
bash: cd: splunk: Permission denied
[user@fedora-24-work-splunk opt]$ sudo cd splunk
[user@fedora-24-work-splunk opt]$ pwd
/opt

Thanks,
Patrick

[Patrick Bouldin]

Ok disregard, I just enabled su and was able to do that. Curious why prefixing with sudo didn't help. Thanks.

[Unman]

Two reasons for this: first, cd isn't an application, it's a shell
builtin( try 'type cd' )
Second, cd spawns a new process which exits when the command completes.
So even if the 'cd' were to succeed, when the process exits, the
original process is still where it started.