Re: I need help with my var partition.
On Fri 28 Apr 2023 at 22:36:39 (-0400), Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> Here is what I got.
>
> root@debian:/var# /bin/ls -ld */
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 28 15:46 backups/
> drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Apr 12 20:20 cache/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 28 20:59 cores/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 13 2020 games/
> drwxr-xr-x 62 root root 4096 Apr 12 20:20 lib/
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root staff 4096 Sep 19 2020 local/
> drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 100 Apr 28 21:13 lock/
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Apr 28 21:36 log/
> drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Nov 12 2020 lost+found/
> drwxrwsr-x 2 root mail 4096 Nov 12 2020 mail/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 12 2020 opt/
> drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 760 Apr 28 22:31 run/
> drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 Apr 27 22:58 snap/
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Nov 12 2020 spool/
> drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Apr 28 22:32 tmp/
> root@debian:/var#
You've effectively got no /tmp available for most users.
drwxrwxrwt 6 root root 4096 Apr 28 21:02 tmp/
On Sat 29 Apr 2023 at 07:12:13 (+0200), tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 10:05:01PM -0400, Maureen L Thomas wrote:
> > Yes my figures are very similar to yours. But even after a reboot I still
> > cannot burn a back up disk.
>
> One problem may be that /var/log has subdirectories which don't
> belong to root. Applications trying to write their logs might
> fail, either because they can't create "their" log subdirectory
> or because they even don't try (because they rely on the install
> process having done that).
>
> Here's an example, but note that your package set will differ
> from mine, so take this as illustrative:
Can I also add to your listing (as a systemd-user):
drwxr-sr-x+ 3 root systemd-journal 4096 Jan 1 2022 /var/log/journal
$ getfacl -p /var/log/journal/
# file: /var/log/journal/
# owner: root
# group: systemd-journal
# flags: -s-
user::rwx
group::r-x
group:adm:r-x
mask::r-x
other::r-x
default:user::rwx
default:group::r-x
default:group:adm:r-x
default:mask::r-x
default:other::r-x
$
Cheers,
David.
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