On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 05:45:45PM -0500, Paul Seniuk enlightened us:
> Perms on /etc/dumpdates is:
> 
> -rw-rw-r--  1 root disk 172 Dec 16 02:37 dumpdates
> 
> Would anything be logged about failing to create /etc/dumpdates (get
> that long pole out, I used the RPM version for CentOS) ?
> 
> For 'fun', I tried putting the perms to 777 ..still same error
> 
> 
> Any feedback on this would be appreciated :)
> 

Do you by chance have SELinux enabled on this machine and not on the others?

Matt

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Matt Hyclak
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