Re: strange NFS problem

On Thu, 13 Feb 2014, Duncan Roe <duncan_roe@acslink.net.au> wrote:

Could it be that chown is trying to do the user name to user number conversion on the local system but the target user does not exist there?

No, it's getting EACCESS from the system call. Here's some strace output: fchownat(AT_FDCWD, "test", 111, -1, 0) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/