[Xymon] Hobbit Permission Problem

[Ralph Mitchell]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Adam Goryachev <adam at websitemanagers.com.au
> wrote:

> On 31/03/2011 11:32 AM, David Baldwin wrote:
> > Have you check the mount options, and try doing 'fsck' on the file
> system?
>
> sorry to say, but you win
>
> The problem was that this is a NFS root system, ie, the entire
> filesystem is mounted via NFS, and the uid and gid of the hobbit user
> was different between the NFS client and the NFS server. However, during
> NFS file requests, only the UID/GID is transmitted or used to determine
> whether access is granted or denied...
>
> Thank you all for your help on this, I had forgotten about this little
> peculiarity (NFS) as I'm so used to working on the systems all the time
> as if they are normal stand-alone systems...
>
> Apologies for wasting everyone's time too...
>


No worries - now we know something else to watch out for...  :)

Ralph Mitchell
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