Re: Random chmod errors

[Peter Kratzer]

James Youngman <address@hidden> wrote on 2005-06-08 18:01:26:

> On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 05:33:59PM +0200, Peter Kratzer wrote:
> > Hello friends,
> >
> > some of my users are encountering random errors with the chmod
> > command. The errors are not exactly reproducible, so I cannot even
> > narrow down the circumstances of their occurrance.
>
>  - What operating systems are your users running?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 WS

>  - Are they all running the same version?

Yes. All machines were originally installed from the same system image
without any new patches.

>  - What filesystem are they running on?
>  - Are they using NFS or some other networked file system?

They are using NFS (NAS filer).
There is one user who seems to have this problem more frequently than the
others. I am having him check this behaviour on a local disk. It's
difficult to tell because of the reproducibility problem. But hopefully by
tomorrow I'll have an answer whether he has got the problem also on the
local file system.

>  - What is the output of "chmod --version"?  Is this the same for all
>    the users?

The version output is
chmod (coreutils) 4.5.3
...

The machines are identical (as far as possible).

> Regards,
> James.

Thanks for your quick response.

With best regards,

Peter