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Operating Systems AIX Permission Denied issue on AIX 6.1 using Root Post 302622565 by rbatte1 on Thursday 12th of April 2012 10:33:43 AM
Old 04-12-2012
Do you have NFS mounted filesystems in play here? Depending on the share, you may indeed not have permissions even though you are root on your client.

The man page for chmod has:-
Quote:
-R Descends only directories recursively, as specified by the pattern
File...|Directory.... The -R flag changes the file mode bits of
each directory and of all files matching the specified pattern.

When a symbolic link is encountered and the link points to a
directory, the file mode bits of that directory are changed but
the directory is not further traversed.
... so your action seems correct, hence my question about NFS. I'm assuming that you haven't mounted the filesystem as Read-Only, by the way.



I hope that this helps,
Robin
Liverpool/Blackburn
UK
 

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mhpath

mhpath(1mh)															       mhpath(1mh)

Name
       mhpath - print full pathnames of MH messages and folders

Syntax
       mhpath [ +foldername ] [ msgs ] [ -help ]

Description
       Use the command to display the full pathname of the specified folder.  If you do not specify a folder, displays the pathname of the current
       folder.

       If you specify a message with its message number, displays the pathname of the specified message.  You can also specify a  number  of  mes-
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       Additionally can take a keyword or a sequence name.  The following keywords are acceptable:

       first	 The first message in the folder.

       last	 The last message in the folder.

       new	 The message after the last message in the folder.  You cannot use new as part of a message range.

       cur	 The current message in the folder.

       prev	 The message before the current message.

       next	 The message after the current message.

       all	 All of the messages in the folder.

Options
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Examples
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       The following example displays the pathname of messages 2 to 5 in the current folder:
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