Starting e2guardian: unable to setgid()

[dje...@totalchaosgaming.com]

Is there a logfile where I can find out maybe which file or directory is causing this error? Or if anyone has a clue. I tried changing every file and directory to be owned by nobody:nobody, but that didn't help or I am missing a file that it needs. Any clues would be great. I found similar errors on google with dansguardian, but hasn't let to a fix yet.

Thank you

[dje...@totalchaosgaming.com]

On Sunday, March 13, 2016 at 4:03:08 PM UTC-5, dje...@totalchaosgaming.com wrote:
> Is there a logfile where I can find out maybe which file or directory is causing this error? Or if anyone has a clue. I tried changing every file and directory to be owned by nobody:nobody, but that didn't help or I am missing a file that it needs. Any clues would be great. I found similar errors on google with dansguardian, but hasn't let to a fix yet.
>
> Thank you

I am running 3.4.0.1 under arch linux

[Philip Pearce]

This error is because the master e2guardian process is unable to change its group id. It has nothing to do with file permissions.

Possible reasons:-

1.  e2guardian was not started by root (only root has permission to change running uid or gid)

2.  daemongroup (in e2guardian.conf) is set to a group that does not exist. Also check that the daemonuser user exists.

Regards

Philip

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[dje...@totalchaosgaming.com]

On Monday, March 14, 2016 at 5:33:32 AM UTC-5, Philip wrote:
> This error is because the master e2guardian process is unable to change its group id. It has nothing to do with file permissions.
>
> Possible reasons:-
>
> 1.  e2guardian was not started by root (only root has permission to change running uid or gid)
>
> 2.  daemongroup (in e2guardian.conf) is set to a group that does not exist. Also check that the daemonuser user exists.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Philip
>

> From: dje...@totalchaosgaming.com
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> Subject: Starting e2guardian: unable to setgid()
>
> Is there a logfile where I can find out maybe which file or directory is causing this error? Or if anyone has a clue. I tried changing every file and directory to be owned by nobody:nobody, but that didn't help or I am missing a file that it needs. Any clues would be great. I found similar errors on google with dansguardian, but hasn't let to a fix yet.
>
> Thank you
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I replied in email thinking it would show up here......

"Ok I thanks, in my bouts of troubleshooting and it erroring out from the systemctl process I started just starting it manually until I got rid of all errors except the setgid and never went back to the systemctl becuase I couldn't get that setgid. So it must be becuase I was no longer starting it as root. I am about to head to work and I will check it out. The reason I was checking file permissions was becuase I found someone who's log file was owned by the wrong person and it caused the setgid problem in dansguardian but something I found on Google while trying to figure this out. Good to know only root can setgid, this will probably be good to know forever. Thank you"


It worked like a charm,as soon as I enabled the service and stopped trying to start it manually, thank you very much.