Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:36:08 -0500 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: scubacuda@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: permission denied to properly chmod'd files Message-ID: <469D7C98.2070508@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <2b7af7c40707171804p1cfd7201v5fae4057bb95d935@mail.gmail.com> References: <2b7af7c40707171804p1cfd7201v5fae4057bb95d935@mail.gmail.com>
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On 07/17/07 20:04, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > Today while trying to create a Cacti graph (something I've been able > to do with no problems on this box before), I got a "permission > denied" error on the .rrd file that I was trying to access. > > I shelled into a FreeBSD box, only to find that the > "/usr/local/share/cacti/rrd" folder was properly chmod'd and chown'd > with the Cacti user. > > I'm relatively new to FreeBSD (compared to other distros) and > unfortunately cannot get any good information out of anyone about what > changed on this server. (It seemed to be working a few weeks ago). > > Might there be some sort of BSD version of SELinux going on here? No > one has any info on what "changed" on the box to make it not work. > I've never had this problem on Cacti on the other distros I've worked > with (mostly Debian and RHEL/CentOS) and am wondering if it is a > FreeBSD oddity that I'm not understanding. > > If FreeBSD is off the hook, then I'll go bug the Cacti crowd. Are you using NFS at all? If so, check your locking. Otherwise, some more debugging would help - can you become the cacti user, and then access it? How about doing a ktrace on the rrd process as it fails? Eric
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