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Hi Folks:

I have been under the impression that the root user can do just about
anything with files. Now I am having trouble from the root login,
trying to chown a couple files. What should I investigate?

# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(system) groups=2(bin),3(sys),7(security),8(cron),
10(audit),11(lp)

# ls -l *xx*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 466 hold4 7725 Oct 03 2006 xxdiff
-rw------- 1 466 hold4 7724 Oct 03 2006 ~xxdiff

# chown iscpadm *xx*
chown: xxdiff: Operation not permitted.
chown: ~xxdiff: Operation not permitted.
#

Thanks,
Wayne Scott

On Apr 23, 6:43 pm, wscott44 <wscot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks:
>
> I have been under the impression that the root user can do just about
> anything with files. Now I am having trouble from the root login,
> trying to chown a couple files. What should I investigate?
>
> # id
> uid=0(root) gid=0(system) groups=2(bin),3(sys),7(security),8(cron),
> 10(audit),11(lp)
>
> # ls -l *xx*
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 466 hold4 7725 Oct 03 2006 xxdiff
> -rw------- 1 466 hold4 7724 Oct 03 2006 ~xxdiff
>
> # chown iscpadm *xx*
> chown: xxdiff: Operation not permitted.
> chown: ~xxdiff: Operation not permitted.
> #
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne Scott

Working on a NFS, GPFS, DCE, AFS filesystem.
Using ACL

hth
Hajo

On Apr 23, 12:43*pm, wscott44 <wscot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Folks:
>
> I have been under the impression that the root user can do just about
> anything with files. *Now I am having trouble from the root login,
> trying to chown a couple files. *What should I investigate?
>
> # id
> uid=0(root) gid=0(system) groups=2(bin),3(sys),7(security),8(cron),
> 10(audit),11(lp)
>
> # ls -l *xx*
> -rwxr-xr-x * 1 466 * * *hold4 * * * * *7725 Oct 03 2006 *xxdiff
> -rw------- * 1 466 * * *hold4 * * * * *7724 Oct 03 2006 *~xxdiff
>
> # chown iscpadm *xx*
> chown: xxdiff: Operation not permitted.
> chown: ~xxdiff: Operation not permitted.
> #
>
> Thanks,
> Wayne Scott


I have learned that the files are on a file system that is NFS mounted
from a server which does not explicitly allow root access from the
client machines.

/wws