On Sunday, April 22, 2012 09:10:44 PM Jon LaBadie did opine: > On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:32:25AM -0400, 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. > > Its is probably quiet because there is no such entity "./gene/.gvfs". > I imagine your starting directory for that DLE is /home/gene. In that > case your above syntax would refer to /home/gene/gene/.gvfs. > Nope, the dle is shop /home
> > 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? > > I remember the same lack of access to .gvfs on my Ubuntu system (no > longer have it). My two Fedora systems allow normal (i.e. expected) > access to .gvfs. Yes, as the prime user, gene, I have access to look at it, but no permission to change the perms to a more globally accessible settings that amanda could live with. > Gnome's use of ~/.gvfs as the mount point for various things seems > similar to the pseudo directory specified for the > auto-filesystem-mounter if it is used. I recall funny accessibility to > those directories. Auto-mount points and .gvfs share another trait. > Unlike ordinary directories, things get mounted "in them" rather than > "on them". I.e., when something is mounted on .gvfs, another it is > like a virtual subdirectory of .gvfs is created and that is the actual > mount point. This technique allows multiple things to be mounted > there. I find it interesting that .gvfs has size "0", even when > something is mounted in there. > > No ideas on how to deal with the error messages. > > jl Me neither Jon. I have a slightly different setup to be tested tonight. ;-) 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> Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.
