Re: apt and NFS...
Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> writes:
> 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.
If you read his post again, you'll see that he did this too:
|> arne:~# touch /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
|> arne:~# rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
Which didn't give any errors, indicating he doesn't have root_squash
set.
Tomas
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