Hi Manuel,
I’m assuming that you’re exporting from the CLI here, but if that’s not the
case please say so..
Do you use ‘sudo’ when running dsrun? (I’m guessing so, or you wouldn’t be able
to create the files beneath the exports folder if it’s owned by root). If so,
you’re effectively running the ‘dsrun’ command as root unless you do something
like ‘sudo –u tomcat dsrun org.dspace.app......’ or ‘sudo –u dspace dsrun
.......’ – the username you pass to sudo should be whatever user dspace is
actually running as.
If you get sudo errors when you try this, you may need to ask the sysadmin to
allow you to sudo ‘dsrun’ as your dspace user as well as (or, preferably,
instead of!) root. You’ll also want them to change ownership of
[dspace]/export/* to the dspace user, or you won’t be able to write to it.
There’s no need to be concerned about Dspace itself escalating privileges to
root when it shouldn’t be – the dsrun script will run as whatever user it
thinks is running it (‘effective user’), so if you make sure you can sudo to
the dspace/tomcat user rather than just to root, you should be able to avoid
any root-owned files/dirs being created.
If you’re using the webui or I’m totally barking up the wrong tree, apologies
-- maybe give a few more details about how you’re exporting items/collections.
Cheers,
Kim
--
Kim Shepherd
IRR Technical Specialist
ITS Systems & Development
The University of Waikato
New Zealand
DDI +64 7 838 4025
From: Manuel Martin Mohedano [mailto:manumohed...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 9 June 2009 7:59 p.m.
To: dspace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Dspace-tech] Strange Behaviour when exporting items and collections
Hi all.
I was doing some exporting tests with communities and items yesterday and there
was a thing that surprised me. Exported files are stored in a folder on server
called exports/downloads/number. The thing is the owner of this folder is the
root of the system but I don't have any root account on the machine. How is
this possible?? Can Dspace run processes as root??
Thank's and regards.
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