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

[Peter H. <ha...@sw...>]

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From: Lambert Hoogeveen <lam...@in...>
To: Ray Van Dolson <ra...@di...>
Subject: Re:[Nfsen-discuss] Eventually uses up all disk space.
Date: Wed Jul 26 2006 01:06:03 GMT+0200 (CEST)

> 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.

The is an installer bug in all stable 1.2.x versions, which did not correctly set the permissions for profile.dat on a new installation. As of snapshot-20060325 and later, this bug is fixed. However,
I must admit, that I was obviously not clear in communicating this bug on the list, which cost you time to fix. I'm sorry for that. I will put all new bugs in the bugs DB @ sourceforge. Of course feel
free to file a bug yourself, if you find one. The solution is correct: chown the file, and it works.

	- Peter


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