I have a cron job that runs 'find /' as root, keeps blowing up when encountering ~/.gvfs in my home dir. Permissions are set like so: ls -la ~/.gvfs total 4 dr-x------ 2 tburns isys 0 2008-10-13 07:43 . drwxr-xr-x 73 tburns root 4096 2008-10-24 11:49 .. As owner of dir, no problem: find /users/tburns ! -name .gvfs |grep gvfs As root, boom: sudo find /users/tburns ! -name .gvfs |grep gvfs [sudo] password for tburns: find: /users/tburns/.gvfs: Permission denied When I create another similar directory, same permissions, root has no problem with it. But note ***the copy has a different file size (original size=0, copy size=4096)***: [tburns@cod ~]$ cp -pr .gvfs .gvfscopy [tburns@cod ~]$ ls -la .gvfscopy total 8 dr-x------ 2 tburns isys 4096 2008-10-13 07:43 . drwxr-xr-x 76 tburns root 4096 2008-10-29 10:56 .. [tburns@cod ~]$ sudo find /users/tburns/.gvfscopy /users/tburns/.gvfscopy .gvfs is using some secret sauce that I don't understand to prevent root from accessing it. Is there some ACL stuff going on here? (getfacl results are boring.) File locking? (lsof says it is not open.) Corruption? How can it be that root is denied? I wonder what would happen if I deleted .gvfs and recreated it manually with identical permissions? I tried googling gvfs and permissions, got many many irrelevant hits. Some hits described a similar problem, but always veer off to a workaround for their specific situation, no general solution. Please at least give me a hint what to do or what to google for. My brain hurts! Dave -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
