Hi,
I was testing out rdiff-backup and noticed an unexpected behavior:
uid/gid of the symlinks are set incorrectly after restore.
Here is how to reproduce.
## 1 ## As a user "joe" (uid=500), I did following:
mkdir /home/joe/test
cd /home/joe/test
ln -s /etc/fstab .
## 2 ## As root,
rdiff-bac
Naoki Takebayashi wrote:
Note that the uid/gid is set to "root" instead of "joe".
I suppose that, technically, it could be considered a bug. However, the
actual permissions of a symlink are inherited from the target file, so
it will make little difference in real life. Do you have something t
Hi,
Actually, the owner of all symlinks get set to root after "restore",
regardless of the original owner of the target of the symlinks. In
other words, this happens even if the owner of the target file
(e.g. /home/joe/.bashrc) is 'joe'.
Naoki
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Keith Edmunds wrote:
Naoki
Hi !
Keith Edmunds wrote:
> I suppose that, technically, it could be considered a bug. However, the
> actual permissions of a symlink are inherited from the target file, so it
> will make little difference in real life. Do you have something that
> explicitly relies upon the owner/group of symlin
> Naoki Takebayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Sat, 30 Jul 2005 11:39:13 -0800 (AKDT)
> Actually, the owner of all symlinks get set to root after "restore",
> regardless of the original owner of the target of the symlinks. In
> other words, this happens even if the owner
> Raimund Specht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Sat, 06 Aug 2005 11:19:32 +0200
> I recently moved my Linux laptop to a bigger harddisk. After the
> restore, Firefox refused to start because
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/6x154dtw.default/lock "is owner by another user
> than you" - th
> Naoki Takebayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:19:37 -0800 (AKDT)
>
> I was testing out rdiff-backup and noticed an unexpected behavior:
> uid/gid of the symlinks are set incorrectly after restore.
Ok CVS rdiff-backup should now preserve symlink owner
Ben Escoto wrote, On
Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:36:34 -0700:
> Naoki Takebayashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:19:37 -0800 (AKDT)
>
> I was testing out rdiff-backup and noticed an unexpected behavior:
> uid/gid of the symlinks are set incorrectly after r
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Warning: lchown missing, cannot change ownership of symlink /
> rdiff-backup 1.0.4
> Redhat 9 (2.4.32)
> Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
Python 2.2 does not support the lchown() system call. I think version
2.3 does support it (2.4.3 is the latest). Perhaps
Andrew Ferguson wrote, On 03/05/06 00:36:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Warning: lchown missing, cannot change ownership of symlink /
rdiff-backup 1.0.4
Redhat 9 (2.4.32)
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
Python 2.2 does not support the lchown() syst
Andrew Ferguson wrote, On 03/05/06 00:36:
Warning: lchown missing, cannot change ownership of symlink /
rdiff-backup 1.0.4
Redhat 9 (2.4.32)
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
Python 2.2 does not support the lchown() system call. I think version
2.3 d
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