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Mick wrote: |
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> On Sunday 24 Jun 2012 19:27:36 Dale wrote: |
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>> Jarry wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> I have just checked my machines and I found I have basically |
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>>> two groups of settings ("ls -al" in /var/log/portage/elog/): |
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>>> |
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>>> A) |
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>>> drwxrws--- 2 portage root 4096 Jun 24 03:10 . |
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>>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr 7 2009 .. |
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>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage root 57760 Jun 22 15:11 summary.log |
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>>> |
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>>> B) |
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>>> drwxrwsr-x 2 portage portage 4096 Jun 24 13:30 . |
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>>> drwxrws--- 3 portage portage 4096 Nov 3 2011 .. |
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>>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 portage portage 1132 Jun 22 17:28 summary.log |
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>>> |
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>>> Not only "summary.log", but also /var/log/portage/ and |
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>>> /var/log/portage/elog/ have quite different permissions. |
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>>> I'm sure I never changed it manually, the only difference |
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>>> is that "A" group has been installed 3 yers ago, while "B" |
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>>> just recently (but both regulary updated). |
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>>> |
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>>> So is the "B-version" correct one? |
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>>> |
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>>> Jarry |
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>> This is my thinking on why it may be different for different folks. |
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>> This first tho. I run emerge as root. I have not added my regular user |
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>> to the portage group. I have no memory of messing with the permissions |
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>> either. |
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>> |
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>> I think that if you use a regular user to emerge some things, it gets |
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>> set to portage:portage or some mix of portage:root. If you always run |
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>> emerge as root, then you get root:root. It may be that this is only set |
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>> once or that it could be modified if you run as root then later on run |
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>> as a user. |
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>> |
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>> For the record, mine is set to root:root. As mentioned above, I ALWAYS |
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>> run emerge as root. |
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>> |
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>> Any one have thoughts on this? |
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>> |
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>> Dale |
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>> |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> I always run emerge as root. |
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> |
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> elog is owned by portage:root, summary.log within it as portage:root, other |
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> log files within /var/log/portage are owned by portage:portage. |
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So those that allow users to run would have the same permissions as |
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everyone else. Now I wonder why they vary from system to system then. |
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It seems to me, they should be the same for everyone. Just seems odd. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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-- |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |
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