dfirth wrote: > Samba is set so that all files are "force user" myname which is the log on > user name of all the linux boxes. I have no need to preserve windows pcs > ownership or permissions.
I don't use Samba so I don't really understand what this means. > What happens is two things. First, on the snapshots box, dirvish-expire > cannot delete certain directories (typically My Document folders from the > Windows boxes) from the expiring snapshots. What are the permissions of the directories that cannot be deleted and what permissions should they have? What are the permissions of the user running dirvish? Again, what do the logs say on such occasions? > Second, on the fileserver and > the snapshots box, dirvish occasionally creates a snapshot which is owned by > root and not by myname. On the next run of dirvish, dirvish cannot read the > files in the root owned snapshot and fails. Same questions as above. > I tried running dirvish using sudo dirvish-runall but it creates all > snapashot images with root ownership which probably works for dirvish but is > not optimal for me. As Paul has already pointed out, dirvish is designed to run as root, and rsync is also usually run as root. It may be possible to make a system work in some other way. Why is the normal way not optimal for you? What is the specific problem? Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
