On Monday 30 November 2009 10:56:17 am Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 30 November 2009 05:54:31 Mike Diehl wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I recently moved my local home directory to an nfs-mounted directory. > > Now I'm having trouble with kmail. It seems that the permissions on > > ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/sent-mail/cur are being... changed... > > > > What I'm seeing is this: > > > > drwxrwxrwx 5 mdiehl users 4096 2009-11-28 03:41 . > > drwx------ 8 mdiehl mdiehl 4096 2009-11-29 18:43 .. > > d????????? ? ? ? ? ? cur > > drwx------ 2 mdiehl users 4096 2009-09-02 19:32 new > > drwx------ 2 mdiehl users 4096 2009-11-29 18:43 tmp > > That is indicative of filesystem corruption where the kernel cannot read > the directory for whatever reason. The server should always be able to read > the inode for cur/ and read the owner/permissions data
The server sees the file permissions just fine; this is what the CLIENT sees. > What nfs options are in use, both client and server side? I used this fstab entry on the client: 10.0.1.1:/home /home nfs defaults 0 0 > > Then, after a while, the permissions get changed to something more sane > > without me having done anything. > > Permissions don't just magically change. Either a cron runs that changes > things, or a circumstance changes to allow the client to see the directory I don't have any cron jobs running. I'm not doing anything to change the circumstances in such a way that the permissions should change. I litteraly type kmail until it starts. > > I've googled for this and not found anything. Strangely, kmail won't > > start unless it can read my sent-mail folder. > > That's not strange at all, an MUA that can't use it's sent folder is pretty > useless as an MUA It would be nice to at least be able to READ my messages without sent-mail permissions.... -- Take care and have fun, Mike Diehl.
