Permission issue

[Pramod M]

Hi,
I am facing a problem related to directory permission / owbership. It was found during backup failure.

drwxrwx--- 2 webtest isdads 2048 Feb 8 12:16 uploadedfiles

I changed the directoy ownership by chown to root:root from user webtest.
$ chown root:root uploadedfiles
$ chmod 777 uploadedfiles
chmod: can't change uploadedfiles: Not owner

Now from even root I am not able to change the permission / ownership of the folder. Also I am not able to revert back the ownership to webtest:isdads.

# chmod 777 uploadedfiles
chmod: can't change uploadedfiles: Not owner
# chown webtest:isdads uploadedfiles
uploadedfiles: Not owner

Now I need to give full permisson 777 to that folder.

drwxrwxrwx 2 webtest isdads 2048 Feb 8 12:16 uploadedfiles

How can I achive this.

Thanks in advance..

Pramod

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

Is uploadedfiles an NFS mountpoint? If yes, then contact the server owner and change the export permissions to allow remote root access.

[singh sanjeev]

$ chown root:root uploadedfiles
By above action you have change the users to root so below chmod can only be executed with root account..if am not wrong..

do ..
#ls -ld uploadedfiles

So try with root to adapt the permission.

$ chmod 777 uploadedfiles

[Elmar P. Kolkman]

If you do:
$ bdf uploadedfiles

What does it show for the provider of the directory? Is it on a lvol, NFS, CIFS or something else?

You can change the ownership of your own files and directories, but the root on your system apperently doesn't have super-user access to this directory.

You haven't mentioned what OS you run. Perhaps mentioning things like OS and version and some more info on the directory/filesystem, we might be able to help further.

[Pramod M]

Hi ..
Sorry for my mistake ... That updatefiles was an NFS and i resoled it from the source server..

Thanks for the replies...
Unluckly the itrc forum site also was not working today morninig....

Thnkas very much..
Closing this thread

[Pramod M]

see arlier post