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  1. Xref: sparky comp.sys.sgi:13003 comp.unix.questions:10459 comp.unix.admin:4727 comp.unix.misc:3406
  2. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter
  4. From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
  5. Subject: Re: chown : HELP!
  6. Message-ID: <id.2FQS.7B6@ferranti.com>
  7. Followup-To: comp.unix.misc
  8. Keywords: changing owners
  9. Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
  10. References: <1992Aug26.081722.27559@leland.Stanford.EDU>
  11. Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:08:00 GMT
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  14. In article <1992Aug26.081722.27559@leland.Stanford.EDU> underdog@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dwight Joe) writes:
  15. > What the hell does that mean?  What am I doing wrong?  I am executing the
  16. > "chown" command as the "root" user.  Shouldn't I _have_ permission?
  17.  
  18. Yes, you should. But because you're using NFS, you don't. NFS is not a full
  19. UNIX file system.
  20.  
  21. rlogin to the server and do it from there.
  22. -- 
  23. Peter da Silva                                               `-_-'
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