chown use

patient0

@JonathanLee the command looks fine, as long the files are a filesystem that handles ownership.

The fat* filesystems for example does not know of ownership.

Add: and you have to run it as user root

JonathanLee

@patient0 Thanks so I have this under a fat32 file system because I could not mount the freebsd zfs filesystem it said integerity issues when I would try to mount it

 Shell Output - gpart show nda0
=>       40  500118112  nda0  GPT  (238G)
         40       2008        - free -  (1.0M)
       2048   16777216     1  freebsd-swap  (8.0G)
   16779264  482344960     2  efi  (230G)
  499124224     993928        - free -  (485M)

I am using 2 efi

patient0

@JonathanLee you can try (or search for similar topic)

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/mount-usb-stick-with-fat32-file-system.56675/

"By default, only root is allowed to mount devices. You need to make a few changes to allow users to mount things.

I'm out of my depth on FreeBSD here and have not tried the above mentioned! If you can specify the exact device and the user you want to use for that partition it may work - if the device number won't change.

JonathanLee

@patient0 I figured it out after you create the mount folder you have to change the permissions before you mount it if you do it after it is locked it and can't be changed. Again, that still gives me errors for Squid accessing it and utilizing it for logs. But it works for chown

patient0

@JonathanLee that user and group are correct now as squid:proxy?

In general the squid:proxy user/group has to be able to get to /root/LOGS_Optane/squid_logs. Meaning /root/LOGS_Optane has to be accessable/traversible for everybody otherwise Squid won't be able to see the squid_logs directory.

What would the output be of:

ls -ld /root
ls -ld /root/LOGS_Optane

If for example it is like below then squid won't be able to reach the squid logs directory because Squid (category 'other' users) doesn't have rights to change into the /root/ directory.

ls -ld /root/
drwxr-x---  6 root wheel 512 Jan  4 13:11 /root/

BUT: don't change the permissions for /root! Mount the Optane somewhere "neutral", like /mnt/ or /media

JonathanLee

@patient0 I got it to be squid proxy the correct way for my folder only not root, again it is a mount point squid still did not like it. I am going to move it to something like mount. I will have to try Monday my family is here and each time it fails the whole proxy crashes with errors saying it can’t write logs. So I got to try when everyone is gone

JonathanLee

I GOT IT~~~!!! Update coming soon

JonathanLee

https://forum.netgate.com/topic/195843/unofficial-guide-have-squid-logs-record-to-a-secondary-ssd-drive

JonathanLee

@patient0 Quick Question,

what is normally in the mnt and media folders on pfsense?

patient0

@JonathanLee

@JonathanLee said in chown use:

what is normally in the mnt and media folders on pfsense?

Nothing on my pfSense but I'm not sure if any packages mount stuff in there.

# ls -l /mnt /media/
/media/:
total 0

/mnt:
total 0

JonathanLee

@patient0 Thanks I started to question if that is a good place to use for the drive I have it dumping logs to it with symbolic links, Squid, Syslog, Snort, I want to cut down on the main ssd use so I have it using this Intel Optane, I started to wonder if mnt is ever used by software locally and if I have something mounted to it can that cause issues.

patient0

@JonathanLee I'm sure someone with longer and deeper understanding of pfSense will be able to answer that.