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Eric Evans commented on CASSANDRA-3198:
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Hum, the goal of this ticket is that anyone that have started using the deb
package after 0.6.4-2 have /var/{lib,log}/cassandra owned by root.root, which
was not intended. So we can decide that we want to leave all those people with
those "wrong" permissions, but it's not safer to remove the comparison now that
it was when the patch was initially committed.
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I think that statement was always bugged. What it _should_ do is to ensure
that /var/{lib,log}/cassandra are owned by user cassandra on new installs only,
not upgrades (allowing the user to override that ownership).
At this point, I'm not sure what the comparison to 0.6.4-2 was supposed to
accomplish, I assume it was a (misguided )attempt at applying this policy to
versions greater than or equal to 0.6.4-2 (we didn't always create the
cassandra user and chown in postinst). Either way, the current packaging will
never be used to upgrade from an 0.6.x release directly, so there is no danger
in removing it.
So, looking at that (untested )snippet again:
{noformat}
if [ -z "$2" ]; then
chown -R cassandra: /var/lib/cassandra
chown -R cassandra: /var/log/cassandra
fi
{noformat}
would only apply ownership changes if argument #2 is empty, that is to say,
there is no previously configured version (i.e. not an upgrade).
> debian packaging installation problem when installing for the first time
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CASSANDRA-3198
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-3198
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Packaging
> Affects Versions: 0.8.5
> Reporter: Jérémy Sevellec
> Assignee: Jérémy Sevellec
> Fix For: 0.8.6
>
> Attachments: debian-postinst-fixperms.patch, trunk-3198-v1.patch
>
>
> when installing cassandra through the debian packaging for the first time,
> there is permission problem when starting Cassandra.
> Normally, the postinst script change owner of /var/log/cassandra and
> /var/lib/cassandra from root to cassandra user.
> there is a problem with the test which verify if threre is a need to change
> the owner of these directory or not.
> On a new install, the $2 parameter is not set and the the test is false and
> the owner is not changed.
> (simply, i think replace "&&" with "||" might work)
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