Ken responded: >This looks like a permissions/id problem. >Did you "su -" (i.e., to root) from an ordinary user account before >running this? uhh, not quite, I did just 'su' (not 'su -') from an ordinary user account, before running I am not sure what you are implying, but Iwill try again doing the 'su -' I think I want to be root (insome form), bc some of the files in /etc have -r-------- or -r--r-----,... which then wont be picked up running 'cp -a' as an ordinary user just tried again doing 'su -' same symptoms copied files on the nfs target dir showup with weird permissions,eg -rw------- 1 65534 65534 516 Jun 29 1998 logrotate.conf thanks for response, any advice? Jack _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com. _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
