trying to backup /etc from byers my rhat 5.2 system to a backupdir on corni rhat6.2 on my lan the target backupdir: [root@corni /]# ls -ld dcproot drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 4096 Sep 20 04:38 dcproot [root@corni /]# [root@byers byers]# mount corni:/dcproot /mnt/jack [root@byers byers]# cp -a /etc/cron* /mnt/jack cp: /mnt/jack/cron.daily/updatedb.cron: Operation not permitted cp: /mnt/jack/cron.daily/inn-cron-expire: Operation not permitted cp: /mnt/jack/cron.daily/inn-cron-rnews: Operation not permitted cp: /mnt/jack/cron.daily/logrotate: Operation not permitted cp: /mnt/jack/cron.daily/tetex.cron: Operation not permitted cp: /mnt/jack/cron.daily/tmpwatch: Operation not permitted cp: /mnt/jack/cron.hourly/inn-cron-nntpsend: Operation not permitted cp: /mnt/jack/cron.monthly: Operation not permitted cp: /mnt/jack/cron.weekly/makewhatis.cron: Operation not permitted cp: /mnt/jack/crontab: Operation not permitted [root@byers byers]# 1-- why this message? -- it occurs for every single file copied the files actually _do_ get copied and diff shows contents good. 2-- the permissions on the new copies on corni are changed: eg a small subset, the files that came from /etc/cron.daily now appear in the backup dir on corni as: -rw------- 1 65534 65534 54 Sep 10 1998 inn-cron-expire -rw------- 1 65534 65534 34 Sep 10 1998 inn-cron-rnews -rw------- 1 65534 65534 51 Jun 29 1998 logrotate -rw------- 1 65534 65534 102 Oct 11 1998 tetex.cron -rw------- 1 65534 65534 54 Sep 10 1998 tmpwatch -rw------- 1 65534 65534 557 Jul 29 1998 updatedb.cron this behavior is consistent for all of /etc all copied files end up with -rw------- which is wrong for almostall files the copy actually succeeds for all subdirs and contents, so mostly this is working as hoped. but I have that oddball message in response and the file permissions all change and that 65534 65534 in place of original root root What can i do to get previous permissions back or copied correctly? probably something that i dont know about using nfs. thanks for advice Jack _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
