Re: [bu-users] installed as user; bu by root works but no log

[Vincent S. <bu...@hi...>]

Hi Jack.

On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 08:17:04AM -0700, jack byers wrote:
> Hi Vincent,
> thanks much for your response
> 
> i tried rebooting, no change
> still see log file if doing the bu from user byers
> and dont see the log file from user root
> 
> I may not have been clear enough in first msg,
> it is not that i see a log file on first bu
> and none on 2nd bu
> but consistently
> -log file appears if run as byers
> -log file  does not  appear if run as root

I have never seen bu do this.  Are you sure you are looking in the right
place for the log files?  Double check the $bu_log_dir setting in roots
~/.burc file.  Do you get any errors when you run bu?  It writes the
logs by appending with simple redirect with append ">> $Log" in the
script and all preceding directories are always made if they do not
already exist.  If there were any problems writing to it you should get
error messages.  

I am still suspicious of some other strange underlying system problem
though because of those permission errors you got from _strip_ during
installation.  You should not have gotten any such error after
successfully installing the files there.

Do you have any other machines you can install and test bu on?  That
would confirm bu works and that you don't have a corrupt copy or
anything.

A long directory listing of the log directory of multiple bu runs in the
same day should look something like this (from my machine).

$ ll /var/log/bu/
-rw-r-----  1 vince  wheel  -    539 Sep  3 03:20 log.060903
-rw-r-----  1 vince  wheel  -    359 Sep  3 03:22 log.060903-1
-rw-r-----  1 vince  wheel  -    569 Sep  3 03:22 log.060903-2
-rw-r-----  1 vince  wheel  -    876 Sep  3 16:09 log.060903-3

The default log location for a non-root user installation (if you have
not changed ~/.burc, in the case of user, "byers") would be 

    ~/byers/pkg/var/log/bu


> in the past i think i installed as root  v 2.8 i think
> 
> so maybe i should just uninstall
> and reinstall as root ?

When you have the problem, are you running bu as root but from a user
installation in byers home directory?  If so, are you specifying the
whole path to bu (ie ~byers/pkg/bin/bu).  If not, are you sure there is
not an installation of an old version of bu somewhere in your command
path?  I did change the rc file format and the default location of the
log files at one point, so an old version of bu might not be getting the
location you are expecting for the log files.


> Jack
> 
> p.s.   not sure if I am replying correctly; it seems to be addressed
> to you only, not the mailinig list


Yes it was to me only.  I don't know what mailer you use, but I use mutt
and it has a list reply option that will reply to a mailing list rather
than the original author directly.  Perhaps yours has something similar.


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