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From: apogeusiste...@gmail.com

Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 06:15:36 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Thurs, May 15 2008 9:15 am

Subject: Re: Fail Creating directory

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On May 15, 9:53 am, Franco <franco_spen...@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On May 15, 1:34 pm, apogeusiste...@gmail.com wrote:

> > Hi:

> > Can you tell me why I cannot create this directory with root id ?

> > solaris # mkdir /export/home/john
> > mkdir: Failed to make directory "/export/home/john"; Permission denied
> > solaris# id
> > uid=0(root) gid=0(root)

> try mkdir -p /export/home/john

> If that doesnt work, check permissions on /export

I issued this command without success:

solaris> # id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
solaris> # mkdir -p /export/home/john
mkdir: "/export/home/john": Permission denied
solaris> # ls -alF /export
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 3 root sys 512 May 10 2006 ./
drwxr-xr-x 50 root root 2048 May 15 09:28 ../
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 512 Apr 8 11:44 home/

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