From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 18 3: 2:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from metis.host4u.net (metis.host4u.net [209.150.128.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 248F415374 for ; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 03:02:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan.langille@dvl-software.com) Received: from wocker (203-79-82-27.adsl-wns.paradise.net.nz [203.79.82.27]) by metis.host4u.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id FAA12121; Thu, 18 Nov 1999 05:02:00 -0600 Message-Id: <199911181102.FAA12121@metis.host4u.net> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: DVL Software Limited To: Sheldon Hearn Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 23:48:16 +1300 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Cannot become a daemon: Permission denied Reply-To: dan.langille@dvl-software.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: Your message of "Thu, 18 Nov 1999 23:09:40 +1300." <199911181009.EAA28014@metis.host4u.net> In-reply-to: <18139.942920599@axl.noc.iafrica.com> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12a) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG thanks. On 18 Nov 99, at 12:23, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 23:09:40 +1300, "Dan Langille" wrote: > > > [root@fred:/usr/local/etc/cvsup] # su -m cvsup -c "/usr/local/sbin/cvsupd -e > -C 8 -l daemon -s /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup.client" > > [root@fred:/usr/local/etc/cvsup] # Cannot become a daemon: Permission denied > > Is sup.client a file or a directory? The manpage makes it sound like it > should be a directory. The permissions issue applies there too if it is > a directory. If it's a file, make sure that's a legal argument to the > -s option. It is a directory: drwxrwxr-x 4 root cvsup 512 Nov 18 19:16 sup.client # chown cvsup sup.client # su -m cvsup -c "/usr/local/sbin/cvsupd -e -C 8 -l daemon -s /usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup.client" [root@fred:/usr/local/etc/cvsup] # Cannot become a daemon: Permission denied Hmmm, thats not it. It's not something to do with the cvsup user is it? cvsup:*:1001:1001::0:0:CVSup Daemon:/nonexistent:/nonexistent Nope, the user is there. I'm lost. -- Dan Langille - DVL Software Limited The FreeBSD Diary - http://www.freebsddiary.org/freebsd/ NZ FreeBSD User Group - http://www.nzfug.nz.freebsd.org/ The Racing System - http://www.racingsystem.com/racingsystem.htm unix @ home - http://www.unixathome.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message