From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] IDE FS failure Message-ID: <20020927160942.A12877@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: <299bf2fc58b57db82f3e4a16f9c59ffb@plan9.bell-labs.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <299bf2fc58b57db82f3e4a16f9c59ffb@plan9.bell-labs.com>; from Russ Cox on Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:50:30AM -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 16:09:43 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: f623ddee-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:50:30AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > > You need to enter config mode while the fs is booting > and type "allow". That will, for that boot only, allow > you to change uids. The uid isn't crucial, so you could > initialize without setting them (as long as they're getting > set to glenda or sys rather than none) and not worry about it. > Nope, the fileserver was empty and it allowed me to create files. Allow mode was already on. The frustrating thing is that (I think) I had it all installed properly before, but I can't remember how I had got there. I think synchronising the users files did the trick. > I think the allow command is documented somewhere, but > I can't find it. > You're right. It is missing from fsconfig(8). ++L