Subject: Re: [vserver] utmp owned by wrong group
From: Declan Mullen <declan@jadplace.com>
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:18:53 +1100

 > chown-ing might help ...

Yes sure. I can even have /etc/rc.local do it for me every time the 
system is rebooted.

However, I am interested in knowing the root cause.




Nikolay Kichukov wrote:
> Hi Declan,
> I am having also host and guest debian based. My /var/run/utmp in the 
> guest is also owned by the group voice.  Coincidence? Never noticed 
> that before ;->
>
> chown-ing might help ...
>
> Cheers,
> -Nik
>
>
>
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> Declan Mullen wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> My guest has a "/var/run/utmp" file that is owned by group "voice", 
>> but it should be owned by group "utmp". Any suggestions on how I fix 
>> this ?
>>
>> My host's /var/run/utmp is owned by "utmp" just as expected. The 
>> group ids for "voice" and "utmp" in the host are the same as they are 
>> in the guest.
>>
>> Both host and guest are Debian Lenny. The host's kernel is Lenny's 
>> "linux-source-2.6.26" (version "2.6.26-13") with Lenny's vserver 
>> patches applied from "linux-patch-debian-2.6.26" (version 
>> "2.6.26-13"). The host's util-vserver package is Sid's, ie version 
>> "0.30.216~r2772-6". The host's "vserver-debiantools" package is 
>> version "0.6.3".
>>
>> The guest was created via:
>>
>>  newvserver --vsroot /var/lib/vservers/ --hostname maxv1 --domain 
>> jadplace.com  \
>>   --ip 192.168.0.121/24 --fakeinit --mirror 
>> "ftp://ftp.iinet.net.au/debian/debian" --verbose
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Declan
>>
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