I found my own problem. Background: I was having trouble getting
appointments and to-do items to work. Whenever I submitted one I got an
"Unknown error." I have recently reorganized my /usr/var file structure
into a file system of it's own and I suspected that had something to do
with it.
The permissions on the callog.* files in /var/spool/calendar were wrong.
In particular, they had a mode of 440 instead of 460 as was the case in
the original file structure (of which I wisely kept a backup). As a result
the rpc.cmsd program was not able to write to the files.
I used tar to copy the /usr/var directory structure to it's new partition.
This might not have been the best choice. Apparently tar didn't set the
(somewhat odd) 460 permissions on those files but instead reverted to 440.
I did do the tar operation as root, of course, and file ownerships and
group associations where properly copied. All in all it was an interesting
effect. A bug in tar perhaps?
Anyway, the problem seems to be solved.
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Peter
pchapin_at_twilight.vtc.vsc.edu
http://twilight.vtc.vsc.edu/~pchapin/
"Don't fix the program. Fix the specification."
Received on Mon May 11 1998 - 21:30:06 NZST