Hi, a lot users and admins use these tiny scripts to backup their ACLs.
e.g.: #!/bin/bash mkdir -p /root/files getfacl -R / | gzip -c -9 > /root/files/aclbackup.gz But with acl from lenny these scripts will not work anymore. The behaviour of getfacl changed. So I get a maybe endless recursion in /sys. Even 'getfacl -R -P' doesn't solve this. You can change the last line to 'getfacl -R /sys | gzip -c -9 > /root/files/aclbackup.gz' to gain a lot of data within minutes (here 3,5 megabytes in a few minutes). On one machine I get output to stderr which notes that there are "Too many levels of symbolic links". An example is attached. A possible suggestion: Don't backup the ACLs of /sys. But what if I run into these problems with more important data? Regards, Marcus
example.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data
