On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 10:12, Markus W Kilbinger wrote:

> The strange thing for me is that there is a minority of
> netbsd-{current,2-0} machines which can access the file (as the
> netbsd-1-6 ones), but the majority cannot, platform independent (I
> tested i386, macppc, alpha, sparc64). I cannot find a reproducible
> rule... :-(

> -> Does anybody else see this kind of problem?

> From: Geoff Wing
>> My PR#23716

as well as Geoff's PR#23716 there is my PR#24987 which is the same thing.

As to machines that work vs those that don't:  Is it perhaps ones where root 
is mapped to root that work and where root is mapped to nobody that don't?
As the problem only strikes us on machines where root is mapped to nobody (I 
think).

cheers
mark