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chmod permissons denied for root

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tracee

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Hi,

I am trying to change permissions for a group with the command chmod g+r filename.
I get the error chmod:WARNING can't change filename

How can this happen when I am logged in as root?

I just want to give the group permissions.

Thanks, Tracee
 
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hi,
have you nfs-mounted this fs ? (are these file on another host : see df output )
bye
 
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