[9482] in Athena Bugs
afs file ownership problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tom palka)
Wed Jun 17 10:16:27 1992
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 92 09:16:14 CDT
To: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: acevedo@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: consult@mit.edu
From: tom palka <tompalka@timbuk.cray.com>
I had some problems with the volume that gets mounted on /mit/consult.
Recently it has become writable, whereas before it was a readonly copy.
So now I don't have to modify the files in /afs/.athena/... and wait for
the updatebut can make my changes right in /mit/consult.
Now, the problem is that the file owners don't seem to get updated. For
example, imagine I create a file called "tomtest". I save it and list
it:
1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 tompalka 43 Jun 17 10:03 tomtest
Then I asked Carla to modify it, which she did, and then she saved it:
1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 tompalka 140 Jun 17 10:05 tomtest
So I still seem to be the last person who modified the file, whereas I
wasn't. This wasn't the case before, meaning that the last person who
modified the file was listed as the owner.
That came up because I noticed that my name was listed as the owner of
some files that I know I didn't modify. Examples:
/mit/consult/lib/elisp/eolcr/definitions.el
/mit/consult/rsaixbin/xspecify
I wasn't aware of any changes done to AFS, so is this perhaps related to
the fact that /mit/consult is now writable instead of readonly or
something like that?
tom
p.s. If it is of any importance, I have created the "tomtest" file on
snoopy, which is a sparc. Then it was modified by Carla on
mickey-mouse, which is a VAX running the test release. The file
"xspecify" mentioned above was written by Derrick Kong (starflt) and
probably on an rs6k, and running 7.3 I think. I have no clue who
updated the definitions.el file.
