On Thursday 02 September 2004 11:03 pm, Edward wrote: > Elmer E. Dow wrote: > > Why did the console and gui interfaces list different permissions? > > And why did ttyS1 spontaneously change permissions -- at least as > > reported by the gui? > > > > Earlier this week I had a similar occurrence on the same machine using > > Knoppix (installed on the hard drive -- it's basically Debian unstable) > > and wvdial. I'll briefly report that, too, since there were some > > commonalities and it may give a hint as to what's going on. On boot > > cardmgr reported: > > <SNIP> > > Just a little chime from this corner. The only time I've seen permission > change like this is when I had exported Linux files via Samba to back > them up. > > The back up (run on Windows), somehow marked the files as being backed > up in it's mind (modified bit or something?), but on the Linux side, the > permissions changed, to the sort of symptoms you describe. > > May or may not be relevant, but thought I'd let you know. If you're > using samba and Windows is peering at those files that could be it? > > Regards, > Ed. I don't use Samba. I've looked at WinXP via Linux, but not the Linux partitions via WinXP. I did use WinXp to run Partition Magic to resize the partitions a few weeks ago, but the problem occured long after that. Any suggestions of what to do diagnostically if this happens again? Thanks for your input. Elmer -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
