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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users scp and sudo? Post 69177 by reborg on Tuesday 12th of April 2005 07:43:19 PM
Old 04-12-2005
It will also depend on how the filesystem to which you are trying to copy the files is mounted. It could be mounted locally as read-only, or NFS mouted as readonly in which case there is little chance you will be able to achieve what you are trying to do without assistance from your sysadmin.
 

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filesystem(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual					     filesystem(7)

NAME
filesystem - event signalling that filesystems have been mounted SYNOPSIS
filesystem [ENV]... DESCRIPTION
The filesystem event is generated by the mountall(8) daemon after it has mounted all filesystems listed in fstab(5). mountall(8) emits this event as an informational signal, services and tasks started or stopped by this event will do so in parallel with other activity. EXAMPLE
A service that wishes to be running once filesystems are mounted might use: start on filesystem SEE ALSO
mounting(7) mounted(7) virtual-filesystems(7) local-filesystems(7) remote-filesystems(7) all-swaps(7) mountall 2009-12-21 filesystem(7)
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