Re: git-daemon serving repos with repo.git/git-daemon-export-ok

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

John Griessen wrote:

> git version 1.7.2.3

Good.

> vking@mail:/etc/sv$ sv stat git-daemon
> fail: git-daemon: unable to change to service directory: file does not exist

Ah, you switched to running git daemon directly.

> I can push to these repos with gitosis, and the permissions are:
>
> vking@mail:/srv/gitosis/repositories$ ll
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 7 gitosis gitosis 4096 Dec 30 12:32 extrudator.data.git

So the gitdaemon user (used by git-daemon-run) wouldn't be able to
access them.

> vking@mail:/etc/sv$ cat strace.out
> execve("/usr/lib/git-core/git-daemon",
> ["/usr/lib/git-core/git-daemon", "--verbose", "--strict-paths",
> "--user=git", "--group=gitosis", "/srv/gitosis/repositories"], [/*
> 10 vars */]) = 0

In this case simple --verbose output would probably be more useful.
(That's what cat-ing /var/log/git-daemon/current would have given
if git-daemon-run were still installed.)

Thanks for the strace.  I should have mentioned that strace -f can
help by following child processes, though that doesn't seem to be
an issue here.  It looks like another git-daemon process is running at
the same time?  (One can check with "netstat -t -a".)