permissions on OPTIONS directories

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 7/22/10 5:19 PM, Alberto Villa wrote:
> hello!
> 
> i have a problem on two public tinderbox servers. on the first one, 
> /space is an actual directory, while on the second one it's a symlink to 
> /usr/space; /space/options is nfs exported from the first one to the 
> second one. being these public servers, the directories must be 
> owned by their users (e.g. avilla:fbsdusers), but almost each time i 
> start a build, its OPTIONS directory is reset to root:wheel. tinderbox is 
> at least 3.2 (but ./tc tbversion doesn't work, so i can't tell you more)
> 
> # ./tc configOptions
> OPTIONS_DIR=/options
> OPTIONS_ENABLED=1
> 
> any clue? am i doing something wrong? is it something to be fixed in 
> tinderbox?

I don't see how TB is causing this.  There are no explicit calls to
chown in the TB code.  You could probably use ktrace -d -i on the
tinderbuild process to see if you can track down what is actually
changing ownership.

Joe

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