This looks like a permissions/id problem. Did you "su -" (i.e., to root) from an ordinary user account before running this? hth, kf -- My recommendation: Don't shop at Explorer Micro, Columbus, Ohio. On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Jack Byers wrote: = 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 = _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
