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# 1  
Old 08-04-2004
cant make dir as root
not sure what the problem is, when I go to /home and enter command mkdir i get this error

mkdir chris
mkdir: Failed to make directory "chris"; Operation not applicable


im root....
# 2  
Old 08-04-2004
You are running the automounter and you have a /home entry in /etc/auto_master. Turn off the automounter or at least remove the offending entry.
# 3  
Old 08-04-2004
Or you could go on the server that is providing /home and create the directory there if you still want to keep using automounted home directories. But if you do want to create the new directory just on the local box you'd have to do what Perderabo says.
# 4  
Old 08-08-2004
or you can go to /export/home and create the directory if theres a stand alone machine thats most offten the mountpoint of /home
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