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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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> 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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> 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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> Any one have thoughts on this? |
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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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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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Regards, |
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Mick |