I think you are right about the selinux, I will test it later tonight because I have to go to co-lo cause I locked it up. To fix this do I need reload the OS? I know I enabled selinux during the install. Nope I never worked at etrade, used to have an etrade account though :) Sean Rick Philbrick wrote: > Hi, > > Here's a stab in the dark are you running with selinux enabled ? > the commands getenforce and selinuxenabled should tell you if you are. > > BTW- Did you work at etrade ? I knew a sean roe there but I am not > sure if he spelled it rowe. Sorry had to ask. > > Rickp > > > On 3/20/06, Sean Roe <> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I am a new Centos user (old Red Hat and Debian user) and I'm having a >> very strange problem. I just installed Centos V4 and it appears to be >> running fine except for a weird issue. If I am on the systems console, >> I can write all kinds of files anywhere I choose. But if I am ssh'd in >> to the box it appears I can not write any files on the file systems. >> Since this box is across town, it makes it difficult to go to the >> console to make changes. Any guidance would be great. >> >> Thanks, >> Sean >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >>