Why are multiple commands failing with error message "/sbin/ldconfig Permission denied" ?
Issue
- Unable to run
yum update
due toldconfig
permission error. - Unable to rebuild
initramfs
withdracut
due to the followingldconfig
error:
/sbin/dracut: line 299: /sbin/ldconfig: Permission denied
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
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