Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 15:01:48 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with periodic scripts in jails [Cron <operator@sosai> /usr/libexec/save-entropy] Message-ID: <20040602140148.GA27036@genius.tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <200406021357.i52DvCIn002903@grimreaper.grondar.org> References: <20040602134523.GA26835@genius.tao.org.uk> <200406021357.i52DvCIn002903@grimreaper.grondar.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 02:57:12PM +0100, Mark Murray wrote: > Josef Karthauser writes: > > I'm getting some wierd emails from a jail (5.2.1) that I've got running. > > It appears that permissions are messed up periodically. > > Hmmm. > > > mv: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.7: No such file or directory > > mv: /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.5: No such file or directory > > override r-------- operator/operator for /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.5? = > > (y/n [n]) not overwritten > > override r-------- operator/operator for /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.4? = > > (y/n [n]) not overwritten > > override r-------- operator/operator for /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.3? = > > (y/n [n]) not overwritten > > override r-------- operator/operator for /var/db/entropy/saved-entropy.2? = > > (y/n [n]) not overwritten > > Not the answer you are looking for, but the entropy cronjob is an example > of the type of cronjob that IMVHO should not be run in jails. > Probably not :) The point is though that there is no reason why we should be getting permission errors here, save some kind of race condition. Joe -- Josef Karthauser (joe@tao.org.uk) http://www.josef-k.net/ FreeBSD (cvs meister, admin and hacker) http://www.uk.FreeBSD.org/ Physics Particle Theory (student) http://www.pact.cpes.sussex.ac.uk/ ================ An eclectic mix of fact and theory. ================= [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkC93csACgkQXVIcjOaxUBYdXwCglCknsI3/G97r69cpeokFUNqZ MBgAoK6QRpb6Zj7nOPxf9FTPeZaYj6uB =kQAS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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