From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 09:36:21 -0400 From: Steve Kotsopoulos steve@ecf.toronto.edu Subject: More questions.. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 4b465a52-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19960820133621.2RpEltYOHyAAQhMXHYVhuBKg-4H2JHtajSXu3vqK_sI@z> > Is there a way to change owner from none to sys? Vadim posted an 'su' program here last year, I saved it at http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/plan9/info/misc/su > The following error is strange.. > > disk/kfscmd allow > cd / > mkdir mail > mkdir: mount device forbids creation The root of your file server (in this case, /n/kfs) is distinct in many ways from the root of your namespace (/). This takes some getting used to. Try the following instead: disk/kfscmd allow cd /n/kfs mkdir mail If you then look in /, you'll find /mail > Any pointers? The manpages: root(3), mnt(3)