Re: backup via: cp -a /etc to nfs mount as root, permissions change,....

2000-09-20 Thread kf
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

backup via: cp -a /etc to nfs mount as root, permissions change,....

2000-09-19 Thread Jack Byers
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 drwxrwxrwx7 root root 4096 Sep 20 04:38 dcproot [root@corni /]# [root@byers byers]# mount corni:/dcproot /mnt/jack [root@byers