cp and utime error

[Elena Leontieva]

Hi,

When using cp command, the following message is generated, even though it copies the file properly:

cp -p file /directory/xxx
cp: utime failed file: Not owner

Thanks,
Elena.

[Steven E. Protter]

Elena,

What are teh permissions on the file? Maybe permissions are tight.

Also

pwck
grpchk

There may be a consistency problem in /etc/passwd or /etc/group

bdf /

Make sure root fs isn't too full.

Kind of stumped actually, this is what I'd do if it happened to me.

SEP

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

I found this some place else:
utime() failed because I`m the not owner of the file. I have (group)
write permission which is why the copy completed successfully.

And because you are not the owner utime is unable to set date/time of modification.

Check, if this is also your case,

Michael

[T G Manikandan]

Are u copying files to a NFS mounted file system?

Please revert

[T G Manikandan]

check Document id: A5571682

[Elena Leontieva]

Hi everybody,

No, this is happening NOT on NFS mount, rather on XP256;

pwck and grpck do not report any problems for that user;

Michael, this is my situation, i.e file permissions are 664 and a user who does a copy is not the owner but belongs to the group;

What is strange though, that on the other server a cp does not give an error even though permissions are 644 and still copies a file;

Thank you for responses,
Elena.

[Michael Schulte zur Sur]

Hi,

compare the access rights of the two directories the files are in.
can you post an ls -lisa /directory
?
Are you using acl?

Michael