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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] bug?: uid of symlinks restored incorrectly
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Andrew Ferguson |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] bug?: uid of symlinks restored incorrectly |
Date: |
Wed, 03 May 2006 00:36:03 -0400 |
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Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Macintosh/20060308) |
address@hidden wrote:
> Warning: lchown missing, cannot change ownership of symlink /
> rdiff-backup 1.0.4
> Redhat 9 (2.4.32)
> Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
Python 2.2 does not support the lchown() system call. I think version
2.3 does support it (2.4.3 is the latest). Perhaps you can find a more
recent version of Python for your distribution? There have been some
security fixes since 2.2.2 anyway.
Without the lchown() system call support, rdiff-backup cannot change the
owner of the symlinks upon restore. So what you see is (unfortunately)
expected.
Andrew
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