SV: Re: [CMake] make uninstall/dist

[David Somers]

On Thursday 07 July 2005 10:23, Peter Vanroose wrote:
> > -rw-r--r--  1 4294967294 4294967294   71 Jul  7 02:06

> install_manifest.txt
>
> I can think of one explanation for this:
>
> - the file is on an NFS mounted file system.

Yes, it *is* in a NFS mounted file system.

> - "root" is only allowed to be 0,0 on the local machine
> - hence for the other (NFS) machine it is user "nobody".
> - check /etc/passwd for the UID of user "nobody".

nobody:x:65534:65534:nobody:/:/bin/false


The following message
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/1996/05/21/0014.html
sums up the problem and a workaround nicely.

It hadn't crossed my mind that it was a NFS 'feature'.

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