[Sunhelp] can not change permission level

[Earl Baugh]

One other problem I've found is that if the permissions of the DIRECTORY 
on which you mount (i.e. /home ) WITHOUT the file system mounted, are 
RESTRICTED (i.e.  not 777) it can effect the file system mounted on
it, esp if you're using NFS.  I've not played with it with locally
mounted file systems, but have encountered it in an NFS arrangement.

Earl

>Message: 10
>From: "Habib M." <stmp at hotmail.com>
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 01:13:53 GMT
>Subject: [Sunhelp] can not change permission level
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>
>Hi,
>
>I just installed ssol. 2.6. /home is NOT writeable when logged in as root to 
>create subdirectories for different users. I used the
>"chmod -f +w home" and got no error but still it is not WRITEABLE. Just x 
>and r able. Could be size related.???
>dr-xr-xr-x  1 root root .......  home
>HM