Re: [Gnumed-devel] Problems dumping database (Mac limitation on su -c)

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 09:01:47AM +0200, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> > The failure of my backup script line
> > 
> >     chown ${BACKUP_OWNER} ${BACKUP_FILENAME}.tar
> > 
> > resulted (while regular user) on Mac OS in
> > 
> >     chown: djb.djb: Invalid argument 
> > 
> > and (while root) in
> > 
> >     chown: root.root: Invalid argument
> > 
> > seems a function of the script using the chown syntax "dot" delimiter
> > 
> >     owner[.group]
> > 
> >  whereas Mac requires the colon delimiter
> > 
> >     owner[:group]
> > 
> > See "COMPATIBILITY" comment below in my Mac OS output of man chown.
> > 
> > Can Debian / Linux / WIndows accept a script revision delimiting instead 
> > with colon ":"
> > 
> > ??
> 
> It can but it doesn't matter because the scripts use the
> variable ${BACKUP_OWNER} which gets set in
> /etc/gnumed/gnumed-backup.conf under the section "this needs
> to be adjusted in most if not all cases".

I set it anyway to now say:

        # user/group the backup is eventually owned by
        BACKUP_OWNER="$USER:$USER"

Karsten
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