Problems changing permissions

[Mike McCarty]

Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
>>>Heres the output of the directory listing
>>>
>>> [root at srvweb-02 vpopmail]# cd bin
>>>[root at srvweb-02 bin]# ls -al
>>>total 1332
>>>drwxrwxrwx  2 4294967294 4294967294  4096 Oct 11 08:48 .
>>>drwx------  8 4294967294 4294967294  4096 Oct 11 08:48 ..
>>>-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 49548 Oct 11 08:48 clearopensmtp
>>>-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 53692 Oct 11 08:48
> 
> dotqmail2valias
> 
>>>-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52236 Oct 11 08:48
> 
> vaddaliasdomain
> 
>>>-rwxrwxrwx  1 4294967294 4294967294 52716 Oct 11 08:48 vadddomain
> 
> ----
> that looks suspiciously like a foreign filesystem (nfs) or a foreign
> owner (perhaps like Windows/NIS owner) - either way, this presents an
> issue that isn't working like you think it should be.
> ----
> 
> [Timothy A. Holmes] 
> 
> Im not sure on that -- I was logged in as root on an SSH session -- via
> putty when I installed it

LOL!

Ok, now we find out!

You have a real problem doing this sort of thing over that type
of connection, unless you have taken special pains when setting
up the machines. The user IDs on the two machines likely do not
match.

Mike
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