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Re: permission problems..

To: Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: permission problems..
From: <marchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 08:23:07 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: Felix Ide <ide@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <200106041521.f54FLTW29906@jen.americas.sgi.com>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
The xfs raid we have is nfsd to all our application servers.  Yes, it is
happening through NFS access since users do not have direct access to the
file server.

*****************************
Walter Marchuk
Senior Computer Specialist
University of Washington
Electrical Engineering
Room: 307g
206-221-5421
marchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
*****************************

On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:

> 
> Is this happening via NFS access, or local access? If I cannot find a quick
> fix I can back out the change which is probably at the back of this.
> 
> Steve
> 
> > It changes permissions which seems to be at random.  It doesnt just change
> > a single file but will change permissions in the whole directory.  So it
> > doesnt change random files just random directories and inside those random
> > directories.  All I can say is that my users randomly see permissions
> > change and sometimes several times a day.
> > 
> > *****************************
> > Walter Marchuk
> > Senior Computer Specialist
> > University of Washington
> > Electrical Engineering
> > Room: 307g
> > 206-221-5421
> > marchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > *****************************
> > 
> > On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> > 
> > > > marchuk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > I am using the latest CVS tree, one from Friday, and I noticed a 
> > > > > strang
> > e
> > > > > problem.  Every once in a while permissions get reset for some
> > > > > directories, I mean all permissions are removed.  Has anyone noticed 
> > > > > th
> > is
> > > > > problem and is this XFS related?
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > I have the same problem here using the cvs tree from today (monday) !
> > > > After installation and reboot some files and directories are chmod'ed to
> > > > 000 !
> > > > 
> > > > Felix
> > > 
> > > Hmm, there was an 'optimization' a couple of weeks back which could 
> > > explain
> > > this. Do you have any pointers to what coincides with this, and what the
> > > first operation is that causes you to discover missing permissions?
> > > 
> > > Steve
> > > 
> > > 
> 
> 


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