home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!ub4b!rc1!apardon
- From: apardon@rc1.vub.ac.be (Antoon Pardon)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
- Subject: Re: ELM 2.4PL6 - Big problem! Changing permissions on /usr/mail
- Message-ID: <849@rc1.vub.ac.be>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 14:46:23 GMT
- References: <Bx9BHq.E1x@mach1.wlu.ca> <848@rc1.vub.ac.be> <1992Nov7.001144.15937@daffy.cs.wisc.edu> <1992Nov7.033752.12791@DSI.COM>
- Sender: news@rc1.vub.ac.be
- Distribution: world
- Organization: Brussels Free Universities (VUB/ULB), Belgium
- Lines: 32
-
- In article <1992Nov7.033752.12791@DSI.COM>, syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
- |>
- |> [Stuff deleted]
- |>
- |> So, my two cents: Someone who is experiencing the problem, you'll
- |> have to investigate further as to what it is.
-
- This little expermints to see whether you probably have NFS problems.
-
- (You need an account that may do chgrp)
-
- change centre to a groupname appropiate for your site.
-
- $ touch gidtst
- $ chgrp centre gidtst
- $ ls -l gidtst
- -rw-r----- 1 apardon centre <--+ 0 Nov 10 15:38 gidtst
- $ : > gidtst |
- $ ls -l gidtst |
- -rw-r----- 1 apardon system <--+ 0 Nov 10 15:38 gidtst
- |
- |
- If these two fields differ like they do
- here you are in trouble.
-
- may have two change the parameters of the ls command to make it show
- you the gid of the file though.
-
- ========================================================================
- Antoon Pardon <apardon@vub.ac.be>
- Brussels Free University Computing Centre 02/650.37.16
- ========================================================================
-