[Live-demo] Permissions problems with GeoServer

[Angelos Tzotsos]

That is funny, I was writing my e-mail while you were sending yours...

On 12/06/2016 08:41 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> Angelos,
>
> I have just found the answer to that too: install_cartaro.sh ran last 
> in inchroot.sh, also started GeoServer, then reset all the GeoServer 
> permissions, in effect cleaning up after install_geonode.sh. The 
> retirement of Cartaro from OSGeo Live breaks GeoServer. I will add a 
> cleanup step to install_geonode.sh:
>
>
> From bin/retired/install_cartaro.sh:
>
> ############################################
> # Bring down GeoServer and reset permissions
> ############################################
>
> "$GEO_PATH"/bin/shutdown.sh &> /dev/null &
> sleep 30
>
> ## Allow the user to write in the GeoServer data dir
> adduser "$USER_NAME" users
> chmod -R g+w "$GEO_PATH/data_dir"
> chmod -R g+w "$GEO_PATH/logs"
> chgrp -R users "$GEO_PATH/data_dir"
> chgrp -R users "$GEO_PATH/logs"
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Ben.
>
>
> On 06/12/16 23:02, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
>> Hi Ben,
>>
>> I saw the same issue in nightly build5.
>> I am wondering why geoserver has this permission issue, previous
>> versions used to work fine with this setup.
>>
>> Best,
>> Angelos
>>
>> On 12/06/2016 05:10 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
>>> Angelos,
>>>
>>> even with my most recent fixes
>>> <https://github.com/bencaradocdavies/OSGeoLive/tree/upgrade-geoserver>, 
>>> GeoServer
>>> on a nightly build will still not start.
>>>
>>> Looks to me like permissions problems (files and directories in the
>>> data directory whcih are owned by root). Likely culprit is
>>> install_geonode.sh, which starts GeoServer as root "to update layers
>>> in the geonode db", causing the creation of files and directories
>>> owned by root:root. The solution (in install_geonode.sh) might be
>>> something like:
>>>
>>> su -c "$GEOSERVER_PATH/bin/startup.sh" - user
>>>
>>> but it will take a little fiddling to get this working with
>>> redirection and running in the background. I will let you know when I
>>> have a fix.
>>>
>>> Kind regards,
>>>
>>
>>
>


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Angelos Tzotsos, PhD
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