Re: [leafnode-list] "cannot obtain group list" error running

[Joerg Dietrich <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 04:00:54PM -0500, William Grinolds wrote:
> >Then read /tmp/texpire.trace and look for chdir("/var/spool/news") and
> >failures in the following lines and report back.
> chdir("lost+found")                     = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
> Why does "texpire" need access to "lost+found"?

oops. Bug. texpire builds the list of groups to expire by going
recursively through the spool directory (ignoring directories
with a period in the name).

The problem is in grouplist.c in this line:

if (chdir(de->d_name)) goto bail;

As soon as cannot access a directory ii simply exits instead of
ignoring it.

Try this 100% untested patch:

--- grouplist.c.orig    Wed Sep 11 10:36:59 2002
+++ grouplist.c Wed Sep 11 10:52:27 2002
@@ -60,7 +60,10 @@
                (void)mastr_vcat(p, prefix, ".", de->d_name, NULL);
            else
                (void)mastr_cpy(p, de->d_name);
-           if (chdir(de->d_name)) goto bail;
+           if (chdir(de->d_name)) { 
+               mastr_delete(p);
+               continue;
+           }
            if (myscandir(l, mastr_str(p))) goto bail;
            if (chdir("..")) goto bail;
            mastr_delete(p);

> permissions to drwxrwx---, and away it went.  Works fine now.  Curious,
> though - it removed the "lost+found" folder - would that cause a problem

It thought "lost+found" was an empty group...

> in the future?

Might add some additional problems in case of filesystem damage.
Not too sure, though.

Cheers,
	Jo:rg

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