Re: Interesting question on nfs permissions

2002-06-08 Thread Neal Lippman
That's a cool idea that I didn't think of. I was thinking of piping the output of mkisofs onto cdrecord directly: mkisofs | cdrecord instead. Since I have a bunch of "standard" mkisofs aliases that I use for backing up various chunks of data, my mkisofs command rarely fail so I won't waste t

Re: Interesting question on nfs permissions

2002-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
> The reason is, obviously, that cdrecord is setuid root, and so the > attempt to open the iso file on the nfs share appeared to come from > root, and with root_squash on the nfs export, it couldn't get at the > file. [...] > Any thoughts or suggestions? How about this? Use standard input for cdr

Interesting question on nfs permissions

2002-06-08 Thread Neal Lippman
I have come across an interesting ( :confused: ) and difficult problem with an nfs mount; maybe someone has an idea. THe basic situation is that I have one linux box (running MDK 8.2, but that's probably not relevant) that I have just set up as a file server, and a second linux box (running Deb