No, we are using Delphi Interbase components, which are connects directly to
the FB service through TCP.
So because FB runs as root, it creates backups as root.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Weissenbacher" <mw@...>
To: <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Linux samba rights


> Hi,
>> We have our project saving database every night automatically. It is done
>> partly by FB service, partly by our application. It first creates a
>> backup
>> of database, then our application packs it with some sort of ZIP library.
>> It
>> works great on Windows, but fails on some linux environment.
>> The bad thing, that when FB creates the backup file, it creates with root
>> rights (we tried to change the FB starting script, so the user would be
>> user1, but finally it always starts with root privileges). But when our
>> application tries to pack it on Windows, it tries to read it with user1
>> rights trough samba, so it can't do it, our backup process fails.
>>
>> Any idea how to make this works? This is a very important part of our
>> application, it HAS to work.
> You don't provide enough information about your enviroment to make a
> proper judgement. But I guess you are running gbak as a cronjob, which
> runs as root. You have those options:
> - Run the cronjob as user1, by editing the crontab via "crontab -u user1
> -e" (preferable, because nothing should be run as root without a good
> reasaon)
> - Set the owner to user1 with chown after making the backup
>
> hth,
> Michael
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