The problems mentioned below still exist in the xCAT repositories build from the distribution .tar files. I don't know if both tar files have the problems or only one.
Whenever I install the repositories I need to do the following: chown -R root:root /install/xcat chmod -R go-ws /install/xcat find /install/xcat -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a-w Otherwise some files remain owned by uid 1001 and other files and directories are world writable. On Wed, 30 May 2012 at 20:53 -0000, Stuart Barkley wrote: > Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 20:53:18 > From: Stuart Barkley <[email protected]> > Reply-To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> > To: xCAT Users Mailing list <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [xcat-user] xCAT 2.7.2 is released > > Can the file ownership and permissions be fixed in future releases of > the contents in the .tar.bz2 distribution files? > > The ownership of the files inside both .tar files is root/xcat. We > don't have an xcat group id here so these files get extracted as owned > by some random group. > > The permissions of the files and directories in the xcat-dep .tar file > are all sorts of strange values. Some files and directories are world > writable which is bad. Some directories are setgid which isn't > necessarily that good. > > The files should all extract with permissions 444 or 555 and the > directories should extract with permissions 755. All files and > directories should be owned by root/root. > > I haven't kept track of tar over the years. It used to only restore > the permissions and ownership of files when using 'tar xpf', but 'p' > seems to now be a default operation. 'tar -xof' does fix restoring > the files with other owner and group information, but you used to only > need 'o' when using 'p'. > > Thanks, > Stuart Barkley > -- > I've never been lost; I was once bewildered for three days, but never lost! > -- Daniel Boone ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user
