influxdb/influxdb — pull request #651 by Dieterbe (2014-06-16 18:41:37+00:00)
Title: follow symlinks

for people that have a symlink, such as /opt/influxdb/shared/data as a link to a datadir on a different volume, this makes sure the ownership is reset there too.
otherwise you can get influxdb to panic due to incorrect permissions (happened to me)