reopen 292174 thanks On 2005-01-26 Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:21:33PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > Package: debarchiver > > Version: 0.1.4 > > Severity: important > > > > > > On a fresh installation: > > -------------------- > > ls -l /var/lib/debarchiver/incoming/ > > total 20 > > drwxr-sr-x 2 debarchiver debarchiver 4096 2005-01-25 16:08 REJECT > > drwxr-xr-x 2 root debarchiver 4096 2005-01-10 21:59 stable [...] > > If I now (as root) take a file and move it to one of the > > subdirectories, I'll get this strange error message: > > > > | Error: Removing sarge/pilot_4.61-1_i386.deb after it has been installed. > > | > > | Warning: Move sarge/pilot_4.61-1_i386.deb to REJECT dir. > > > > Which seems to be debarchiver's way of saying "The default permissions > > are less than optimal, because of lacking write permissions of group > > debarchiver to incoming/* debarchiver is never able to clean up.
> I do not really understand what you do here. I can see that only > root have access to those directories. > ... I'll check on a fresh install here. > labradorit:/var/lib/debarchiver# ls -la incoming/ > total 0 > drwxrwsr-x 5 root debarchiver 48 Jan 26 10:29 . > drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 33 Jan 26 10:29 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 root debarchiver 6 Jan 10 21:59 stable [...] > It is now fixed. [...] It is not. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg --contents debarchiver_0.1.5_all.deb | grep /var/lib/debarchiver/incomin drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-26 02:37:54 ./var/lib/debarchiver/incoming/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-26 02:37:54 ./var/lib/debarchiver/incoming/stable/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-26 02:37:54 ./var/lib/debarchiver/incoming/testing/ drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2005-01-26 02:37:54 ./var/lib/debarchiver/incoming/unstable/ Whether the directory is 755 root:root or 755 root:debarchiver does not change anything, everybody can still rx to it but the cronjob running as debarchiver:debarchiver still has no permissions to remove files. cu andreas -- "See, I told you they'd listen to Reason," [SPOILER] Svfurlr fnlf, fuhggvat qbja gur juveyvat tha. Neal Stephenson in "Snow Crash" http://downhill.aus.cc/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]