My server box is called bullet and my client box is called baby. I use baby to access bullet because bullet doesn't have a reliable monitor. On baby I have a directory called /backup where the nightly backups are recorded to. bullet has the same setup. Within baby:/backup there is a directory called bullet where bullet:/backup is mounted. I do this because the only CDR drive I have is on baby and also because I do maintenance on bullet's backups using file-roller. This setup has worked fine for months.
This morning I su - to root and asked for an ls of /backup/bullet. It gave me Permission Denied. I cd over to /backup and do "ls". I see my backup files for baby and also listed is the bullet directory: > baby backup # ls > baby-gentoo-etc-050805.tar.bz2 baby-gentoo-michael-050805.tar.bz2 bullet > baby-gentoo-etc-050905.tar.bz2 baby-gentoo-michael-050905.tar.bz2 week1 > baby-gentoo-etc-051005.tar.bz2 baby-gentoo-michael-051005.tar.bz2 world > baby-gentoo-etc-051105.tar.bz2 baby-gentoo-michael-051105.tar.bz2 > baby-gentoo-etc-051205.tar.bz2 baby-gentoo-michael-051205.tar.bz2 (week1 is where I put a single weeksworth of backups to be written to a CD when I have multiple weeksworth of backups) However, when I try ls -l on /backup: baby backup # ls -l ls: bullet: Permission denied total 339636 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4483253 May 8 03:17 baby-gentoo-etc-050805.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46 May 9 03:00 baby-gentoo-etc-050905.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24488 May 10 03:00 baby-gentoo-etc-051005.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4905 May 11 03:00 baby-gentoo-etc-051105.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 579531 May 12 03:03 baby-gentoo-etc-051205.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 251254105 May 8 03:16 baby-gentoo-michael-050805.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10806118 May 9 03:00 baby-gentoo-michael-050905.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5345970 May 10 03:00 baby-gentoo-michael-051005.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7462564 May 11 03:00 baby-gentoo-michael-051105.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67412455 May 12 03:03 baby-gentoo-michael-051205.tar.bz2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 May 7 09:54 week1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3245 May 12 03:03 world I don't understand this. I ssh'd to bullet and did an ls of /backup there from both root and a non-root account and they both work fine. I thought it might be a problem in /etc/exports, but I didn't see one: bullet root # cat /etc/exports # /etc/exports: NFS file systems being exported. See exports(5). /backup baby.espersunited.com(rw,sync,no_root_squash) Has anyone encountered this and/or knows how to fix it? This isn't a problem yet - there's so little traffic on bullet that I only write backups to CD at the end of the month, but if I don't figure out the answer it will be very inconvenient in a couple of weeks... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
