From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 2 16:50:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AB7C16A411 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:50:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 552BE13C48D for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 16:50:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.6/8.13.8) id l12Go8rf006555; Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:50:08 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 10:50:08 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Jay Chandler Message-ID: <20070202165008.GD44511@dan.emsphone.com> References: <45C36A83.3010801@chapman.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <45C36A83.3010801@chapman.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: File won't move X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 16:50:36 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 02), Jay Chandler said: > Have a file mounted on an NFS share. > > I attempt to move it, rename it, copy it, or just about ANYTHING to > it as root, and get a Permission Denied error. > > How can I figure out what's going on? Root usually has no permissions over NFS (it gets mapped to the user "nobody"). Try manipulating the file directly on the NFS server. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com