Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] shared folder in Trash??!!
From: Jamie Biggar (jamie@scifi.com)
Date: Fri Aug 21 1998 - 10:53:21 EDT
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, b. haviland wrote:
>[snip]
> but the other day, one of the mac users opened the share (let's call it
> JOE) and there are supposed to be 5 folders in it. one (BOB) was missing.
> she looked in her trash and BOB was there. she dragged it back to JOE and
> all seemed to be well, but this morning some other user came to me and
> said a folder was missing(it was a sub folder of BOB). a folder that he
> said he hadn't even used in a week or so so he was pretty sure he hadn't
> deleted it. i have backups, but, ack! what's happening?
>
> - beth
> beth@sassy.net
Hi Beth,
This happened to me last week, too. (It's what encouraged me to join
this and the netspace linux-atalk list.)
The problem seemed to be from a multi-user writeable "Network Trash
Folder" on the shared netatalk volume. As it tries to use the same folder
to track all users' trash, some files get corrupted and it basically gets
confused. The simplest work-around is to either 'rm -rf Network\ Trash\
Folder' or at least 'chmod 0700'. It means users will get the "xxxx can't
be left in the Trash, delete immediately?" message, but it seemed to take
care of the trashed-folder problem.
For an interesting work around (wouldn't make sense for my purposes, but
maybe yours), see this netatalk-admins message from March:
http://www.decco.nl/info-mail/7429.html
-Jamie
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