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Scanning my system causes "errno is 13" on every scanned directory

When I do "savscan /" in my Linux-Terminal I just get error messages on every directory : "could not open XYZXYZ (errno is 13)". What could be the problem?

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0 QC over 9 years ago

Hello ErnestoKandler,

savscan runs in the invoker's security context, if you're not running the command as root you get errno 13 (permission denied) - not for every directory though

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0 QC over 9 years ago

Hello ErnestoKandler,

savscan runs in the invoker's security context, if you're not running the command as root you get errno 13 (permission denied) - not for every directory though

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0 ErnestoKandler over 9 years ago in reply to QC

Thank you for your quick answer; if I do it with sudo the result is the same, but without "errno13" - it just says that it cannot open the different directories.
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0 QC over 9 years ago in reply to ErnestoKandler

Hello ErnestoKandler,

the result is the same
likely not, look at the nn errors were encountered line near the end - there should be a significant difference (what's the value for nn BTW if you're running it sudo?).. Anyway a common cause are symbolic links pointing to a directory which doesn't exist.

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