[rrd-users] Re: Strange RRDTool Image File Behavior

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

Schroeder, Dennis wrote:

> Several of the image (.gif) files cannot be replaced with new ones by
> RRDTool.  I cannot delete them (I don't get an error, they just "reappear"
> when I refresh the directory listing) using my account, but (and this is
> strange) I can rename them.

"Cannot be replaced".  Does this mean that RRDtool stops with an error?

"reappear".  Could it be that they *are* recreated?  If this happens
right away, could there be a tight loop where RRDtool is called over
and over again?

> If I go to the server (WinNT 4.0 - logged in as "administrator"), I can
> delete them from there and RRDTool will recreate them the next time around.

> Has anyone ever seen this?  It's very strange.  By the way, MY account has
> Domain Admin permissions, so there shouldn't be a file on any of our servers
> I can't delete.

Is this true?  It works this way for root on unix but IIRC you don't
need to permit the admin group anything if you don't want?  The admin
may steal your file (change ownership) but this doesn't mean the file
can be read/changed/whatever prior to that?

HTH
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