On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 13:55 -0700, 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. ---- sounds like an SELinux issue...do you have root privileges? Can you check dmesg or /var/log/messages to see if your efforts to 'write' files have been logged and why they aren't getting there? Craig