Re: [Nfsen-discuss] Eventually uses up all disk space.

[Lambert H. <lam...@in...>]

Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 07:36:28AM +0200, Peter Haag wrote:
>   
>> What does your logfile say. If NfSen does not expire a profile, there is a
>> reason for that, such as the profile is locked by another task. But even
>> if this may happen sometimes, the next update cycle should expire the
>> profile correctly.
>>
>> Where do you notice, if maxsize gets exceeded?
>>     
>
> Pretty sure this was my bad.  The profile.dat file for the "largest" of the
> profiles was owned by root.  Although it was mode 0644, there were errors in
> the logfile that made it sound like the profile wasn't getting opened
> correctly because the user 'nobody' (whom nfsen runs as) was unable to gain
> write access to it.
>
> nfsen[1024]: Error live: Can't open profile data file for profile: live:
>   Permission denied
>
> Changed the file to be owned by nobody and the error is gone.  I'm hoping
> this is what was causing the problem.
>
> Ray
>
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This is what I noticed too when NFSen is installed, the profile.dat file
is owned by the user you are logged in as, not by the user configured
in nfsen.conf.
Doing a "chown" and "chgrp" to the NFSen user fixes the permissions error.

Lambert