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logrotate failing to rotate, permission denied as root user

I'm having a problem that I cannot wrap my head around. I've setup logrotate on a centos 7 server to rotate my app logs. This file is in /etc/cron.daily (i even added a whoami to verify it's running ...
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Why can't I access a folder I am the owner of?

I am running a CentOS vm in EC2. I ssh as ec2-user, and want to create a log folder for my application that I am about to deploy: sudo mkdir /var/log/search-api sudo chown ec2-user /var/log/search-...
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Apache document root doesn't change

So I installed apache on a virtual server using VMware on CentOS 7 minimal using: yum install -y httpd When I tried to change the DocumentRoot at vim /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf , nothing happens ...
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Linux: old udev (095) changing device permissions doesn't work

I have the following udev rule: # f055:9800, 9801, 9802 MicroPython pyboard ATTRS{idVendor}=="f055", ENV{ID_MM_DEVICE_IGNORE}="1" ATTRS{idVendor}=="f055", ENV{MTP_NO_PROBE}="1" SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ...
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unable to create file in directory even it has group permission

i've created a group call "perm" and it has user apache & ruey. [root@xxx ~]# groups apache apache : apache perm [root@xxx ~]# groups ruey ruey : ruey perm i've set group "perm" into my web ...
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Centos 7 Serial Port Permissions in VMWare Player

Ok, what am i missing. TLDR; I've done all I'm supposed to with permissions, lock directory, compiling, etc of Kermit and I still get the "Sorry, write access to UUCP lockfile directory denied." ...
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Granting root privileges to another user on my Cent OS install?

I have disabled root on my webserver account for security purposes, and have granted root privileges to another user in order to use that user instead of having to keep re-enabling root just to check ...
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/usr/local/ Ownership Overwritten on CentOS Cpanel

I have run the command chown -R myuser:myuser /usr/local/ on a VPS machine running CentOS with CPanel installed. This has overwritten all the ownership in the apache, cpanel, php install folders and ...
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smssend giving permission error on CentOS 7

I am trying to send a sms on Centos 7. I am using a com port modem that is configured, and I have installed smstools. However when I try to send a sms using this command: smsend 0522222222 'testing' ...
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Getting error: "Error constructing proxy for org.gnome... Could not connect: Connection refused" when running gnome-terminal

I am getting the error: "Error constructing proxy for org.gnome.Terminal:/org/gnome/Terminal/Factory0: Could not connect: Connection refused" when I try to run gnome-terminal. I am running CentOS 7. I ...
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Centos Sftp Ssh - How always create files with rwx-rwx-r-x and always owned by a certain group

I have a user myuser, which is only allowed to connect to ssh via sftp. I'd like this user to always create files with rwx-rwx-r-x and always owned by the group apache. I've tried to accomplish the ...
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Failed to adjust OOM score of renderer with pid X: Permission denied

I'm not sure what exactly causing, but I'm getting following error: Apr 11 12:30:00 X alacarte-made-2.desktop: [1712:1735:0411/123000:ERROR:zygote_host_impl_linux.cc(162)] Failed to adjust OOM score ...
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Samba 4.2.3 - Access Denied to Home folder as root user

I am running CentOS 7.2 x64 with Samba 4.2.3-12.el7_2. My Samba config is as follows: [global] server string = log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m max log size = 50 guest ...
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Why is a user only added to one group at a time?

I'm trying to add Apache and a user called admin to the same group on CentOS. When I run id admin I get groups 1000 (apache) and group 1002 (admin), when I run id apache I get groups 1000 (apache) and ...
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PostgreSQL and database cluster ownership on shared storage

For my research, I am using an always on virtual machine for the primary analysis of my data. In doing this I need (or, I suppose, would like to) create and store the data in a PostgreSQL database. ...
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