On Sunday, April 22, 2012 04:13:38 PM Christ Schlacta did opine: > On 4/22/2012 05:32, gene heskett wrote: > > If I have in my excludes file: > > > > ./gene/.gvfs > > > > Then there is no complaint about the lack of access perms in the > > emailed report. > > > > However, from what I understand about the anchoring process, that line > > should also cause /home/gene to be bypassed, and that effectively > > shuts down the reason to do the backup in the first place. > > > > Having the line: > > ./.gvfs > > in the exclude file doesn't shut up the incessant mewling about it > > from amanda because due to the way the perms are set on that subdir, > > not even root can access it. So I haven't a clue why its there, or > > what in tuncket its doing. It has something to do with Ubuntu's use > > of the Global Virtual File System. I think. > > > > Ideas? Clarifications? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Cheers, Gene > > that's the GNOME virtual file system, and the reason even root can't > read it is because it's basically run by a process running as the user > with no way for other users to communicate with it. It's akin to a fuse > filesystem, though I'm not sure if fuse is involved. It's used to make > mounts through gnome (mostly smb, some other stuff like cameras and > music devices) available to command line apps that the user is running. > THe inability to access it as another user is a technical limitation.
No doubt intended to facilitate security. Yes as that user I can access it, but it has yet to have any content. So to me it seems like a waste of time. As for smb/cifs, that quit working here about a year ago, the error messages do not grok in a manner that facilitates fixing it, so I have finally managed to make NFS work, for an hour or so at a time. I wouldn't have a problem with it IF I could see it was being used for something/anything, but that doesn't seem to be an option that is discoverable. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.
