Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 8 Nov 1996 01:17:06 -0500 (EST) | From | Ion Badulescu <> | Subject | Re: NFS client permission bug |
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Zoltan Hidvegi wrote:
> neumann /ubackup # ls -l test > ls: test: No such file or directory > neumann /ubackup # su hzoli -c 'echo bad' > test > zsh: write error: permission denied > neumann /ubackup # ls -l test > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Nov 6 18:52 test > neumann /ubackup #
It's your root shell that creates the file! The output of the su command gets redirected, not the output of the echo command.
Ionut
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