Re: 2.1.70: stange NFS modes

[Bill Hawes]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> 
> I've been running 2.1.70 on my own machine for "up 15:25h" now, and
> sometimes when I open new files over NFS they get really stange modes:
> 
> $ ll iostat.pl
> -r-srwSr-t   1 miquels  staff         280 Dec  4 13:35 iostat.pl*
> 
> $ umask
> 002
> 
> Chmod works as usual:
> 
> $ chmod 644 iostat.pl
> $ ll iostat.pl
> -rw-r--r--   1 miquels  staff         280 Dec  4 13:35 iostat.pl
> 
> The NFS server is Universal NFS Server 2.2beta26 on a 2.0.32 box, and
> is mounted using autofs.

Hi Mike,

I haven't seen any strange file modes with NFS, so would appreciate some
further clues as to when it occurs. How are the files being created? You
said it happens occasionally -- any particular pattern?

Also, are there any special mount options being used?

Regards,
Bill