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- From: rick@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca
- Subject: ultrix 4.2: chgrp/chown problems on an NFS client
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.160418.1@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca>
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- Organization: Queen's University EE Department
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:04:18 GMT
-
- system: ultrix 4.2A. server is a ds5000/240, clients are ds5000/20.
-
- we've discovered what appears to be an anomaly with the use of chgrp
- and/or chown to change the group on a file. this appears to work fine on
- a locally-attached disk, but not an NFS client. an example will show
- what i mean:
-
- on the file server, there doesn't appear to be any problem:
-
- decsqurl> ls -alg junk.txt
- -rwx------ 1 rick staff 388 Oct 29 16:05 junk.txt*
- decsqurl> /etc/chown rick.system junk.txt
- decsqurl> ls -alg junk.txt
- -rwx------ 1 rick system 388 Oct 29 16:05 junk.txt*
-
- wait an arbitrary length of time and it's still fine. so put it back.
-
- decsqurl> /etc/chown rick.staff junk.txt
- decsqurl> ls -alg junk.txt
- -rwx------ 1 rick staff 388 Oct 29 16:05 junk.txt*
-
- now try the exact same thing on an NFS client:
-
- elrod> ls -alg junk.txt
- -rwx------ 1 rick staff 388 Oct 29 16:05 junk.txt*
- elrod> /etc/chown rick.system junk.txt
- chown: can't change ownership of junk.txt: Not owner
-
- which isn't true, BUT:
-
- elrod> ls -alg junk.txt
- -rwx------ 1 rick system 388 Oct 29 16:05 junk.txt*
-
- it changes it anyway. but if i wait for a minute or two, it puts it
- back the way it was, with no intervention from me:
-
- elrod> ls -alg junk.txt
- -rwx------ 1 rick staff 388 Oct 29 16:05 junk.txt*
-
-
- is this something known? is there an easy fix?
-
-
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