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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Can't run mkdir even as root please help Post 302801829 by nokia3310 on Thursday 2nd of May 2013 03:08:36 PM
Old 05-02-2013
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Originally Posted by Corona688
Root is especially prohibited from modifying remote NFS in my experience, since it's not "your" filesystem; since it's on some other machine, you only get the permissions its been told to allow you.
So i am guessing that is what the problem is then because i have been running as root ever since...but then my question is why did it mount? Why can't linux not mount and tell me "you can't mount as root"? Why can't i get that type of error message?

That is just my problem with software nowadays...with all logs everywhere and error messages yet the simplest thing to log it won't like just simply telling one exactly what is wrong

I have a question though...so how do i know what user to mount as?
What if i was mounting on a mount point that is not user related?

Last edited by nokia3310; 05-02-2013 at 04:19 PM..
 

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MKDIR(3)								 1								  MKDIR(3)

mkdir - Makes directory

SYNOPSIS
bool mkdir (string $pathname, [int $mode = 0777], [bool $recursive = false], [resource $context]) DESCRIPTION
Attempts to create the directory specified by pathname. PARAMETERS
o $pathname - The directory path. o $mode - The mode is 0777 by default, which means the widest possible access. For more information on modes, read the details on the chmod(3) page. Note $mode is ignored on Windows. Note that you probably want to specify the mode as an octal number, which means it should have a leading zero. The mode is also modified by the current umask, which you can change using umask(3). o $recursive - Allows the creation of nested directories specified in the $pathname. o $context - Note Context support was added with PHP 5.0.0. For a description of contexts, refer to "Streams". RETURN VALUES
Returns TRUE on success or FALSE on failure. EXAMPLES
Example #1 mkdir(3) example <?php mkdir("/path/to/my/dir", 0700); ?> Example #2 mkdir(3) using the $recursive parameter <?php // Desired folder structure $structure = './depth1/depth2/depth3/'; // To create the nested structure, the $recursive parameter // to mkdir() must be specified. if (!mkdir($structure, 0777, true)) { die('Failed to create folders...'); } // ... ?> ERRORS
/EXCEPTIONS Emits an E_WARNING level error if the directory already exists. Emits an E_WARNING level error if the relevant permissions prevent creating the directory. NOTES
Note When safe mode is enabled, PHP checks whether the directory in which the script is operating has the same UID (owner) as the script that is being executed. SEE ALSO
is_dir(3), rmdir(3). PHP Documentation Group MKDIR(3)
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