Control: tag -1 +help On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 08:33:39PM +0200, Christoph Berg wrote: > Re: Sven Hartge 2014-09-09 <540f1207.7000...@svenhartge.de> > > > Also the directory /var/lib/smokeping needs to be writable by www-data > > > to allow the data submitted by the slaves to be written to the RRD > > > files or you will get errors like this in the Apache error log: > > > > > > smokeping.cgi [client 10.1.1.32]: Could not update > > > /var/lib/smokeping//Remote/Campus_Remote/swXXX-remote-v1.smoke-slave.slave_cache, > > > giving up for now. at /usr/share/perl5/Smokeping/Master.pm line 156. > > > > Correction: The permissions for /var/lib/smokeping are fine, but the > > default configuration is missing the "dyndir" directive causing the CGI > > trying to write into the datadir instead of the correct directory > > /var/lib/smokeping/__cgi. > > I ran into this as well, it would be nice if the package got fixed. > The default /var/lib/smokeping/__cgi permissions need to be adjusted > as well: > drwxrwsr-x 4 smokeping www-data 4096 Okt 21 20:24 /var/lib/smokeping/__cgi
So I'm not sure I follow all the proposed changes here. I don't feel like prompting the user for permissions is reasonable, at least not at a high priority. If you want to implement that, go ahead, in the `config` script with a `low` priority so it can be preseeded or something. But then I wonder if something couldn't be done with `dpkg-statoverride` - wouldn't that solve your problem? Also, we may be able to differentiate the configuration of slave and master packages, a split that has been proposed years ago but never implemented (#656369). In any case, I would like someone to propose a patch here so we can move ahead. It looks like permissions are set here: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/smokeping.git/tree/debian/postinst I would very much welcome a simple proposed modification to this file if permissions can be improved directly. Otherwise there would need to be changes encompassing more files (e.g. config) if we want debconf help. A.
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