[Bug 340671] [NEW] WARNING: Could not lchown() symlink "..."

[Heiko Ettelbrück]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: rsnapshot

Hi,

I use rsnapshot to backup some stuff to an NFS share (if that kind of
backup target is relevant; exported with option "no_root_squash" to
allow full access for rsnapshot, which runs as root).

I noticed that rsnapshot always returned code 2, which indicates
warnings according to the man page (which were not printed to stdout
although I have the default configuration with "verbose 2", which means
"Print errors and warnings only" according to the default
rsnapshot.conf). So I raised the value for "verbose" to 3 and got the
following warning messages on stdout:

WARNING: Could not lchown() symlink
"/mnt/backup/.snapshots/.sync/james/etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-
aliases.conf" (same for lots of other files = symlinks)

Searching the web about this, I found e.g.
http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.rsnapshot.general/2006-08/msg00089.html
which basically tells me to install the "Lchown" Perl module (manually,
via CPAN). As I didn't find any Ubuntu 8.10 package with that module (I
there's still one, please tell me), I installed it manually (after "apt-
get install libyaml-perl make gcc" to install the required tools).

Running rsnapshot again, I no longer get these warnings, so I guess this
really fixed them.

Could you please take a look and check what could be done here to make
"rsnapshot" work without these warnings? Is the "Lchown" Perl module
available in Intrepid? If yes, what do you think about adding a
dependency to that package from rsnapshot? If not, would it be possible
to either make it available somehow (probably you wouldn't do it
yourself, but ask someone to take that part) or document it somewhere
(where? I don't have that much experience with the "Ubuntu way" here by
now, still learning...)?

Thanks and best regards
Heiko

** Affects: rsnapshot (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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