[BlueOnyx:25876] Re: Real Time access analysis (and better stats)

[Juerg Sommer]

Hi Michael,

>>> chown admserv:admserv -R /var/lib/monitorix/www/imgs/
>>>
>>> I wonder what other black magic I'll have to conjure to make it 
>>> stick. :p
>>
>> Could it be, that the rpm post script runs, BEFORE the admserv user 
>> is created? By 1'000 packages... I removed the monitorix rpm manually 
>> and installed again and then permissions are ok. 
>
> Ah, you did a fresh install? Hmmm ... yeah, then it is probably an RPM 
> installation order issue and Monitorix got installed before the user 
> and group admserv were present. That's ... unpretty. With the OS 
> included we're at about 1800-1900 RPMs (if installed off the ISO) and 
> dependencies are getting somewhat complicated.
>
> I just published a YUM update for Monitorix that fixes it for good - 
> no matter what. An ExecPre in the Systemd Unit file now makes sure 
> that permissions and ownerships are corrected whenever Monitorix 
> starts. I could throw in some RPM "Requires" to try to enforce a 
> better sort order, but as it is we already have some funky circular 
> dependencies and I don't want to push them to the point where the 
> install fails due to that.
>

Thanks. Yes I tested every new feature, bug or bugfix on a clean 
almalinux 9.1 vm with snapshot before groupinstall. I did a lot of 
groupinstalls in the last few weeks :) Not it works perfect.

Regards,
Juerg