Bug 316571
| Summary: | Dirvish can't be used by non-root user | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Mads Kiilerich <mads> |
| Component: | dirvish | Assignee: | Robert Marcano <robert> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7 | CC: | triage |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-05-14 21:00:54 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Mads Kiilerich
2007-10-03 09:39:12 UTC
This message is a reminder that Fedora 7 is nearing the end of life. Approximately 30 (thirty) days from now Fedora will stop maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 7. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. At that time this bug will be closed as WONTFIX if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '7'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior to Fedora 7's end of life. Bug Reporter: Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we may not be able to fix it before Fedora 7 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora please change the 'version' of this bug. If you are unable to change the version, please add a comment here and someone will do it for you. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. If possible, it is recommended that you try the newest available Fedora distribution to see if your bug still exists. Please read the Release Notes for the newest Fedora distribution to make sure it will meet your needs: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/ The process we are following is described here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping I realize that dirvish just isn't mature enough to be packaged properly. Unfortunately development of dirvish seems to have stopped, and this feedback won't help. Closing. As a user of dirvish I can tell you that it really requires root privileges to work, for example to store file ownership since it saves the backups with the same ownership of the original file, and if you are backing up remote machines it is recommended to have a central user database (NIS, LDAP, etc) to make sure the correct ownership is assigned to the backup files. I do not think dirvish was designed to be used by normal users. Dirvish development as you say is dead, there is a experimental release for years, but I packaged the stable release since that is what I use on my servers and as a backup tool I do not recommend using the experimental version |