On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:40, Mark Nienberg wrote: > Kern Sibbald wrote: > > Hello Scott, > > > > I think we are having a few problems with directory permissions on the > > Bacula working directory, which for the rpm is /var/bacula. I think we > > need some changer in the configuration code to fix it, because currently > > all three daemons use the same directory, which is fine from a Bacula > > stand point, but from a permissions stand point, it won't work unless > > someone has a good idea. > > > > The problem is that the running permissions of Bacula are: > > > > Daemon User Group > > Dir bacula bacula > > FD root root (I think) > > SD bacula disk > > > > I was thinking about having a separate subdirectory > > (/var/bacula/dir-working, ...) for each daemon, but in looking at the > > above table, it seems to me that the solution is simply to change the > > owner from the default, which is root to bacula. That should allow all > > daemons to access it with no changes after installing the rpm. > > > > What do you (or anyone else) think? > > I just did a clean install by building the rpms and the File daemon is > set to run as root.bacula, not root.root as you suggest.
Yes, you are probably right. Fortunately, it won't interfere with my proposed solution ... > > I changed ownership and perms on /var/bacula as follows > > drwxrwx--- 2 root bacula 4.1k Mar 15 23:10 bacula/ > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] var]# ls bacula/ > total 33k > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 198 Mar 15 23:10 BackupCatalog.bsr > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 560 Mar 15 21:53 bacula-dir.9101.state > -rw-rw---- 1 root bacula 192 Mar 15 17:01 bacula-fd.9102.state > -rw-rw---- 1 root bacula 3.0k Mar 15 23:10 buckeye-dir.conmsg > -rw-r----- 1 bacula bacula 217 Mar 15 21:54 Client1.bsr > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root bacula 8.6k Mar 15 23:10 log > > and this is working, at least for the tutorial examples. Good. You will probably need to change the SD to use group "disk" to get writing to tapes to work -- assuming you want to used tapes. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
