Re: permission probs with Arkeia

[Cheng-Jih Chen <cjc () cjc org>]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:

> While working with the commercial version of Arkeia backup software I
> noticed it creates most of it's "database" files with the permissions of
> 666.  This was version 4.2.8-2 of the server, and I had noticed this several
> updates ago, so it's been going on for some time.  The database files are
> located in /usr/knox/arkeia/dbase.  I have tried resetting the permissions
> on the files, but they get reset again when backup runs again.  I tried
> contacting Knox Software but was told more than once that basically I don't
> have a support contract so they wouldn't talk to me - they were warned.  I
> wasn't able to find anything about this in their documentation.

We're running 4.2.7-1 server and we're not seeing this.  The files
that are 666 are the zero-length lock files (o3_cpnt.lck), but the more
substansive "database" data files (o3_cpnt) is 644.  The Arkeia change
log indicates that the oly difference between 4.2.7 and 4.2.8 is tape
library support.