can't copy file

[hangyu]

When I " rcp -p " file from host A to host B , it will pop the below message , could suggest what is the reason ? thx

rcp: can't set times on

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

what OS version are you using on both nodes?
does it work the other way around, i.e. from B to A?

[Bharat Katkar]

HI,
-p is basically used to preserve time of modifications, owner/group etc of the file.
Now that it is saying "can't set times on" i suspect the date/time of the two servers.

May be the hostB date/time is behind the file modification time that is being copied.

Regards,

[Derek Whigham_1]

Are you doing this as root or as another user?

Check the time on each box ntpq -p to see if they are timesync'd to the same location.

If the two times are very dirrerent this could be the problem

[mirco_1]

hi,

the date of the host A and host B ?

it possible tha the date of node B is incompatible to the date of host A

example :
node A date 25/08/2005
node B date 21/08/2005

date of file 25/08/2005

DM.

[RikTytgat]

That seems to be a permission problem. Does the user have write access on the directory where the file is copied to? If the file already existed and the user has write access to the file, it can overwrite the file. But because op the -p, rcp changes the access time of the file. These are stored in de inode, and to change the inode, one has to have write access on the directory.

regards,
Rik