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diederick76

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Registered: 2010-02-14

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[SOLVED] Curious owner differences on update

Hi, during a pacman -Syu this evening I got these lines:

waarschuwing:eigenaar van map /var/lib/colord/icc/ verschilt
bestandssysteem: 0:0 pakket: 124:124
waarschuwing:eigenaar van map /var/lib/postfix/ verschilt
bestandssysteem: 73:0 pakket: 0:0
waarschuwing:eigenaar van map /var/spool/postfix/trace/ verschilt
bestandssysteem: 73:0 pakket: 0:0

(it's in Dutch, but it says; "warning, owner of ... differs. File system ... package")

and several more concerning postfix files. User 0:0 is of course root, but id 124 is colord and 73 is postfix, which to me make at least as much sense as root owning them. Is this a bug, an inconsistency or am I simply missing something here?

Thanks for any help!

Last edited by diederick76 (2015-02-05 19:43:59)

drcouzelis

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From: Connecticut, USA

Registered: 2009-11-09

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Re: [SOLVED] Curious owner differences on update

Oh, I remember that. I just used "chown" to change them to what pacman expected.

Last edited by drcouzelis (2015-02-04 21:01:47)

alphaniner

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Re: [SOLVED] Curious owner differences on update

There have been a lot of posts about this kind of thing lately.

Also,  you can use 'LC_ALL=C' before commands to make output in English:

LC_ALL=C pacman -Syu

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diederick76

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Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Curious owner differences on update

@drcouzelis, thanks, but I think my question wasn't clear. I know about chown, but I meant to ask why these files in the package have root as owner and group, instead of the dedicated user and group.

@alphaniner, thanks for the tip :-)

apg

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Registered: 2012-11-10

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Re: [SOLVED] Curious owner differences on update

Because the install script uses chown to set the permissions.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 4#p1498604

diederick76

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Registered: 2010-02-14

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Re: [SOLVED] Curious owner differences on update

Sorry for not looking there. I wasn't sure how to search for this topic. My bad. Thanks for the answers.

jasonwryan

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Re: [SOLVED] Curious owner differences on update

Please remember to mark your thread as [Solved] by editing your first post and prepending it to the title.

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