[Voyage-linux] Experimenting with voyage-sync

[Russell Lang]

Panagiotis,

If I do
  /etc/init.d/voyage-sync stop
  chown www-data /var/www
then reboot, I find that /var/www is owned by root again.

Permissions of subdirectories within /var/www retain their correct ownership.

So punkytse's method of making /home be an aufs filesystem works, but not 
your method of making an individual home directory by an aufs filesystem.

There appears to be a problem with voyage-sync script setting the aufs mounted 
directory to the correct owner.

Russell

On 16 Feb 2009 at 9:58, Panagiotis Malakoudis wrote:

> Well, that indeed works because /home is owned by root. But if I only want
> to have the /home/someuser/somefolder, owned by someuser, inside tmpfs, then
> after aufs mount, it is no longer owned by someuser but by root instead.
> Currently I fixed this by chowning from rc.local, but I was wondering if
> there is a more elegant solution.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE
> <punkytse at punknix.com>wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have no problem in adding a new user and make the whole /home managed by
> > tmpfs + aufs.
> > Make sure you have the latest voyage-sync script, which is available here:
> >
> > http://voyage.hk:8080/repos/voyage/trunk/voyage-live/config/chroot_local-includes/etc/init.d/voyage-sync
> >
> > Regards,
> > Punky
> >
> > Panagiotis Malakoudis wrote:
> >
> >> I've been experimenting a little with the voyage-sync script. For an
> >> application of mine, I wanted to have some folders of the home directory of
> >> a specific user inside the tmpfs. I added the folder in the
> >> /etc/default/voyage-util and it is copied correctly, but the problem is that
> >> the folder after the aufs mount is owned by root and not by user. Is there
> >> any way to change this (apart from chowning after mount) ?
> >>
> >> Also, if you use dhcp3-server or dhcp3-client, you also need to put
> >> /lib/dhcp3 in the voyage-sync folders. Since quite a few people might use
> >> these services, it would be nice to have this from the installation.
> >>
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