On 14/12/2011 04:19, bascule wrote:
as you can see the contents of 1 contradict the contents of 2 but both are
produced by the msec cron jobs that run about 4am, i must be alone in this
error since i can't imagine it being widespread and not reported before,
therefore my install must be unique somehow and the only candidate in my mind
is my not formatting /var when i did the install, only surely that's not
uncommon?
bascule
Hi bascule
I don't think it's permissions, but owners and groups that are your problem.
The second set of errors are about groups and owners. They can differ
from distribution to distribution - you had "yum" listed on your last
e-mail, which implies a Fedora/RedHat-based installation was on there
previously. One or the other distribution (I can't remember which)
enforces user:group IDs of 1000 and above on unprivileged users and
Mageia allows 500 and above. That can cause some *real* problems moving
from one to another, or dual booting into the same set of /home
directories, as I did once.
Check, especially that the files in /var are owned by root:root and not
by anything else or has a numeric ID listed, which implies that your
user:group numbers have changed between distribution installs.
Simon
