On Monday 30 November 2009 05:54:31 Mike Diehl wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently moved my local home directory to an nfs-mounted directory. Now > I'm having trouble with kmail. It seems that the permissions on > ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail/mail/sent-mail/cur are being... changed... > > What I'm seeing is this: > > drwxrwxrwx 5 mdiehl users 4096 2009-11-28 03:41 . > drwx------ 8 mdiehl mdiehl 4096 2009-11-29 18:43 .. > d????????? ? ? ? ? ? cur > drwx------ 2 mdiehl users 4096 2009-09-02 19:32 new > drwx------ 2 mdiehl users 4096 2009-11-29 18:43 tmp
That is indicative of filesystem corruption where the kernel cannot read the directory for whatever reason. The server should always be able to read the inode for cur/ and read the owner/permissions data What nfs options are in use, both client and server side? > Then, after a while, the permissions get changed to something more sane > without me having done anything. Permissions don't just magically change. Either a cron runs that changes things, or a circumstance changes to allow the client to see the directory > I've googled for this and not found anything. Strangely, kmail won't start > unless it can read my sent-mail folder. That's not strange at all, an MUA that can't use it's sent folder is pretty useless as an MUA -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
