[mythtv-users] Permission denied to ls for root?

[Carl Fongheiser]

On 7/14/06, Ryan Steffes <rbsteffes at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've never seen ls do this before, at least, not for root.  Any idea what
> could cause it?
>
> # ls
> ls: 1036_20060417230000_20060417233000.nuv.png: Permission denied
> ls: 1056_20060610130000.mpg: Permission denied
> ls: 1006_20050920213000_20050920220000.nuv.png: Permission denied
> ls: 1013_20060420201900_20060420203000.nuv: Permission denied
> ls: 1003_20060419220000_20060419230000.nuv.png: Permission denied
>
> Can't delete em, look at em, touch em, chmod em, or chown em, even as
> root.  It's odd.
>

Are these files on a remote NFS share?   If so, that's not unusual.  Root is
usually mapped to "nobody" on remote NFS servers.

Carl Fongheiser
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