The error.log said apache didn't have permission. I'm not running RH or family (I'm on Linux Mint), so I don't think selinux is active. I've had fun with that at uOttawa. auseach was not installed, but journalctl -b gave a huge output. It showed rather a lot of complaints, I suspect because I recently upgraded to LM 19.1 Tessa and things haven't quite settled yet. One of the line did mention "udisksd[1108]: failed to load module mdraid: libbd_mdraid.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" The disk is accessible by most tools, but perhaps as this was just under "Starting Network Manager Script", it is relevant. JN On 2019-03-20 4:53 p.m., Richard Guy Briggs wrote: > On 2019-03-20 16:03, J C Nash wrote: >> To facilitate some genealogy work at home, I've found it helpful to point local apache2 >> server at some of my files. This seemed to work fine by just putting a symlink to directories >> in my /home/john area. However, today I tried a symlink to a directory on a RAID1 disk (/dev/md0 >> in my system, mounted at /media/john/J6R). >> >> For some reason I've had no success. Read lots of "help" pages, but no joy. >> >> Things I've played with (possibly incorrectly): >> >> - user and group ownership of various objects >> - (re)mount disk with gid for www-date and uid for me >> - restarts of Apache2 >> - apache2.conf adjustment for directory, available and enabled (symlink), >> adding FollowSymLinks etc. >> >> I've a sneaking suspicion that mdadm disks may need some special setting, or else I'm >> missing something very simple that is staring me in the face. > > I have a sneaking suspicion it is selinux chucking a fault on labels... > I'm certainly no expert on selinux but it sounds like apache doesn't > have permission to read the files or filesystem you are trying to feed > it. > > Are there any messages in the audit log? "ausearch -i -start recent" > may give you a clue, or it may be in "journalctl -b" if audit is not > enabled. > >> This isn't terribly urgent or necessary, but it would be nice to know what is going on. >> >> Probably not something that is easy to sort out by the list, so maybe >> offline until worked out. >> >> JN > > slainte mhath, RGB > > -- > Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.ca> > <www.TriColour.ca> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! > Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% > Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________ > To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org