From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qb97L-0004dy-S6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:32:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A243D1C009; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f52.google.com (mail-fx0-f52.google.com [209.85.161.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5881C009 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 10:30:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxd18 with SMTP id 18so1678903fxd.11 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:30:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Z5gaKFV9558OHZP/HfFiHeP+5lSOfI2TAZdAOgqY2yU=; b=TgYioDiDTUGnu3eqkvZZJ4eGfuHOxzQOAjmuUvwQhvC9r/81aWe888Snns4eY//rNG l4sANdGwemQwHG/nysm3l+92emfkkfH666BhiR56EJPIVI0pO+9ae19E2TBhyihirvOu WQ2boGKcLs7G6mHAaQjvoQW5jCX8MvRac+Tlo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=g1mAJpHL3ylPQZtBjoba0O8Zc6wKvobFEufRDUicHLscdXtRk+ECBgOpDT6dBIbPZm q6OsAz5VVoU/5Ozc9GSqi4XZxpcHaY06qd6lZDKil0b7+djRZnzMVonmKlLJ6+VUHUXi fQ8nbWO+89O0wZLUhxdJGWmoSqG0VCoF8pVBg= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.91.85 with SMTP id l21mr8795353fam.80.1309170645496; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:30:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.78.195 with HTTP; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:30:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1309166484.5391.0@numa-i> References: <1309166484.5391.0@numa-i> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:30:45 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] .gvfs breaks my backup scripts - what to do about it? From: Matthias Krebs To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: adbdb9ba06769d0e1d5731a911032799 On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I have an annoying problem which I'd like to fix. > Something (probably some Gnome application) repeatedly creates the > folder > .gvfs =C2=A0with permissions dr-x------ 2 jarausch users > > When I run tar (as root!) I get > tar: ./jarausch/.gvfs: Cannot stat: Permission denied > > which sets an error return code for tar or even terminates tar. > > What I can do about this? =C2=A0(I don't run the Gnome desktop, just some > Gnome applications.) > > Many thanks for a hint, > Helmut. > AFAIK this dir is created by gvfs-mount, which uses fuse. By default fuse creates its mountpoints / files only with permissons for the user running it. You could : - use tar --exclude (probably the best, since the files are only temporary mountpoints) - change the rights of the dir with chown - try use_allow_other in /etc/fuse.conf