[geeks] Turning to the geeks in my hour of need

[Brian Dunbar]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 8:29 PM, Jonathan Katz <jon at jonworld.com> wrote:
> On Mar 13, 2013, at 8:48 PM, Brian Dunbar <brian.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [root at co-ap-116 init.d]# cp
>> /opt/edi/home/biztmp/prod/XML_Inbox/foo5.txt
>> /erptransfer/edi/apps/ecm/Prod/XML_Inbox/foo5.txt
>> cp: cannot create regular file
>> `/erptransfer/edi/apps/ecm/Prod/XML_Inbox/foo5.txt': Permission denied
>>
>> But I can _touch_ it ...
>>
>> [root at co-ap-116 init.d]# touch
> /erptransfer/edi/apps/ecm/Prod/XML_Inbox/foo5.txt
>> [root at co-ap-116 init.d]#
>
>
> You're running as root on an NFS-shared filesystem, right? Do you have
> -maproot set in the exports file? Otherwise root won't have permissions to do
> anything on a shared filesystem from a remote client.

Shared NFS is a NetAp.  The NetApp team (a single guy right now but
whatev) says it's done correctly.

> The "touch" may complete
> because it hasn't flushed it to the NFS server (probably weird code bug,
> maybe?)   what happens when you try...
>
> "# cat > /erptransfer/edi/apps/ecm/Prod/XML_Inbox/foo5.txt"

[root at co-ap-116 init.d]# cat > /erptransfer/edi/apps/ecm/Prod/XML_Inbox/foo5.txt

this that and the other
^C
[root at co-ap-116 init.d]# ls -la
/erptransfer/edi/apps/ecm/Prod/XML_Inbox/foo5.txt
-rwx------ 1 root root 25 Mar 13 20:37
/erptransfer/edi/apps/ecm/Prod/XML_Inbox/foo5.txt
[root at co-ap-116 init.d]# cat /erptransfer/edi/apps/ecm/Prod/XML_Inbox/foo5.txt

this that and the other
[root at co-ap-116 init.d]#


-- 
Brian Dunbar

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