[gentoo-user] Re: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem
On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:54, Holly Bostick wrote: /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ What might that be.? Does something need to be re-initialized? Some cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here. Look at the following command sequence (as my user): [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ echo $CONFIG_PROTECT /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ mkdir temp [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ cd temp [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp]$ touch pippo [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp]$ touch ._cfg_pippo [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp]$ export CONFIG_PROTECT=$CONFIG_PROTECT `pwd` [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp]$ /usr/sbin/etc-update Scanning Configuration files... find: /etc/cups/certs: Permission denied find: /etc/lvm/archive: Permission denied find: /etc/lvm/backup: Permission denied find: /etc/tomcat-5: Permission denied Automerging trivial changes in: pippo Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :) As you can see, any directory can be added to CONFIG_PROTECT, and scanned with etc-update (see: automerging trivial changes in: pippo?). And now: [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp]$ ll -a total 16 drwxr-xr-x2 sko sko 4096 Jan 7 23:14 . drwxr-xr-x 168 sko sko 12288 Jan 7 23:13 .. -rw-r--r--1 sko sko 0 Jan 7 23:13 pippo [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp]$ touch ._cfg_pippo [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp]$ export CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=$CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK `pwd` [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp]$ /usr/sbin/etc-update Scanning Configuration files... find: /etc/cups/certs: Permission denied find: /etc/lvm/archive: Permission denied find: /etc/lvm/backup: Permission denied find: /etc/tomcat-5: Permission denied Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :) [23:13] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/temp]$ The directory ~/temp is listed both in CONFIG_PROTECT and CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, so nothing is done... Is perhaps /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ listed in CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK? Ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.15-gentoo, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Wed Jan 4 20:40:52 CET 2006 One 1GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 2007.24 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem
On Saturday 07 January 2006 23:24, Francesco Talamona wrote: On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:54, Holly Bostick wrote: /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ What might that be.? Does something need to be re-initialized? Some cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here. [...] I'm wrong, the second call to /usr/sbin/etc-update did the *same* thing, but *silently*, it left no ._cfg_* file behind... Sorry for the noise :-) ciao Francesco -- Linux Version 2.6.15-gentoo, Compiled #1 PREEMPT Wed Jan 4 20:40:52 CET 2006 One 2GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor, 2GB RAM, 4014.49 Bogomips Total aemaeth -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
