rcp: can't set times on /home/appl/dira/dirb

[ikbea]

In a HPUX 10.20 server,

/home/appl/dira ownerA:groupA mode=777
/source/dirb ownerA:groupA mode=777
/source/dirb/files ownerA:groupA mode=777

A user 'ownerB' with groupA, run
$rm -f /home/appl/dira/*
$rcp -p -r server:/source/dirb /home/appl/dira

rcp: can't set times on /home/app/dira: Not owner

When ownerB run,
$mkdir /home/appl/dira/dirb
$rcp -p server:/source/dirb/files /home/appl/dira/dirb

'files' are copied.

[T G Manikandan]

do you have any file/dir beneath that path owned by a different user.

check for the rcp patch,has two fixes.

PHNE_23003 HPUX11.0

[Steven E. Protter]

Check the numeric user id for the user on both machines.

when rcp takes schmo's files on server a and moves them to serverb it doesn't know schmo from anyone. It knows numeric ids and I'd bet based on past exerience that the numeric ids are not consistent, causing this problem.

The fix is to use vipw to make user ownerb have the same numeric uid across both systems.

SEP