[BlueOnyx:02111] Re: disk usage stopped calculating

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Michael Stauber wrote:
> The file /usr/sausalito/ui/style/trueBlue.xml.compiled.* should be 
> owned by
> UID "apache" and GID "apache". The regular XML files are owned by root:root.
>
> Please check the UID and GID and let me know who owns them now.
>   
The ownership was correct.

> The compiled styles are generated dynamically by the GUI. You can safely 
> delete the compiled styles, as they will be re-created whenever they're needed 
> and they then should be re-created automatically with UID "apache" and GID 
> "apache". 
>   
Wow - even though the ownership was right, I deleted the .compiled. 
files and that resolved the issue.   I would not have guessed that on my 
own in a hundred years.
> There is something else to check. If the styles are not automatically re-
> created with UID "apache" and GID "apache", but something else, then this 
> could mean that the GUI's CCEwrap is shot.
>
> ls -la /usr/sausalito/bin/ccewrap
> -rwsr-x--- 1 root apache 62028 Aug  7 10:14 /usr/sausalito/bin/ccewrap
>
> Check if yours has the above permissions and ownerships. Note that the GID 
> must be "apache" and this binary must have 4750 permissions. CCEwrap is (sort 
> of) the the "helper" that allows the web interface (which runs as unprivileged 
> user "apache") to perform transactions as "root" on the system. Its built in 
> security mechanisms make it safe to be setuid-root, so that it's able to do 
> what it's supposed to do.
>   
This one was -rwxr-x--- when I got to it.   Changed it to -rwsr-x--- as 
suggested.

Disk usage also seems to be working fine now.   I think that the 
customer is really going to appreciate this.  Thanks for the help and 
suggestions!

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