Thanks for the response, I've been feeling abandoned lately! According to joost witteveen: > > Appearently, stat-ing a file in a directory that is only readable for > > root from a program that is setuid root, that is on a nfs mounted > > partition fails. > > Does adding a no_root_squash (like below) change anything? > > /directory host(no_root_squash)
It's already there: Line from exports at descartes: /var/clients/kant kant.dcd.se(rw,no_root_squash) Line from output of mount on kant: descartes.dcd.se:/var/clients/kant/var on /var type nfs (rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,addr=192.168.1.1) > Old versions of nfsd used to have "no_root_squash" by default, but > more recent ones don't (that's a lot more secure). When root_squash > is in effect, any request from uid=0 will be mapped to uid=nobody, > and thus root isn't allowed to access the directory. > > > Here are some version that might be relevant (please ask if you need > > another package's version number): > > > > base, 1.1.0-14 > > libc5, 5.4.33-3 > > While you are at it, why not tell the version of nfsd (netstd)? Oops, I thought I did with base, now I see I missread it. Here's netstd: netstd, 2.13-1 Does my test program work for you? Thanks, MartinS -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .