Re: Moving files from Linux to Novell - Permissions problems

["Tony Gettig" <GettigAM@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you tried just cp and then rm the source email? It sounds like it's trying to move the permissions too. 

Do you have a Unix name space configured on your Novell volume? If you are going to load the namespace (I've never done it myself), I wouldn't do it to the SYS volume. I guess I'm just kind of a chicken about messing with SYS. :)

HTH.


Tony Gettig
Network Administrator
Kalamazoo Public Schools



>>> "Richard Zimmerman" <richard@knbpower.com> 05/21/01 11:35AM >>>
I've got an interesting problem:

   We keep all copies of emails sent / received by our email server. I would
like to "mv" the email from our Linux box to a Novell server for long term
storage. (Novell server has the .dat drive and a WAY larger drive). When I
mv the files I'm getting the following error:

mv: preserving ownership for `/mnt/email_vault/vault-20010521-093251':
Operation not permitted

   In this case I do not care about preserving permissions as only root can
read the emails on the Linux box and the admin can only see them on the
Novell box.

   I've checked the man page and 'info man' don't give me any options to
ignore the errors. When I run it from the command line, the files *DO* move
to the Novell server, but when run as a cron job, nothing happens.

   I had tried cp -f but it kept asking me to overwrite files even though
the -f option tells cp to force the write.

   Any ideas / suggestions are greatly appreciated. I'm been tinkering with
this for a week to no avail.

   Thanks in advanced...

   Goose