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Sylvain Lebresne commented on CASSANDRA-3198:
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bq. we didn't always create the cassandra user and chown in postinst
Yes, and to make it clear what my point is: while we do create the cassandra
user since 0.6.4-2, we *never* chown in the postinst _excepted_ for people that
upgraded *all the way* since a pre 0.6.4 release. That is, any current new
installation (say of 0.8.5) *does not* chown in the postint and
/var/lib/cassandra and /var/log/cassandra (the directories) are owned by root,
not cassandra.
Now I'm perfectly fine saying that there is no point in changing things during
upgrades and to only fix the chown in the postinst for new installs, but just
wanted to make it clear that this has nothing to do with upgrades from some
0.6.x versions.
> debian packaging installation problem when installing for the first time
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>
> 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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