An hour of my life disapeared and my beautiful uptime was rebooted and it was fixed by reading http://serverfault.com/questions/98900/is-a-reboot-required-to-refresh-permissio ns-after-adding-a-user-to-a-new-group #/home is mounted from a NFS export [jpyeron at node000 ~]$ cat /tmp/jobs/foo.txt ~jobs/test.txt ~jobs/userstest.txt afasdasd cat: /home/jobs/test.txt: Permission denied Sun May 5 03:20:36 EDT 2013 #### why does this fix the issue? [jpyeron at node000 ~]$ newgrp jobs [jpyeron at node000 ~]$ cat /tmp/jobs/foo.txt ~jobs/test.txt ~jobs/userstest.txt afasdasd Sun May 5 02:27:17 EDT 2013 Sun May 5 03:20:36 EDT 2013 [jpyeron at node000 ~]$ -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - - - Jason Pyeron PD Inc. http://www.pdinc.us - - Principal Consultant 10 West 24th Street #100 - - +1 (443) 269-1555 x333 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 - - - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- This message is copyright PD Inc, subject to license 20080407P00.