On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 01:51:05PM +0100, Turbo Fredriksson wrote: > [please Cc me, it's to much noise on the debian-devel list] > I have /var/cache/apt as a symlink to a NFS mounted partition... > > Any ideas? You probably have root_squash set on the NFS server (or it may be on by default). Your request from root@arne is probably getting squashed to nobody@scrooge. -- - mdz