sendmail 8.9.0 directory permissions

From: Graham Allan <ALLAN_at_mnhep1.hep.umn.edu>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 14:35:27 -0500

I'm sure I must be overlooking something very simple here...

I recently installed sendmail 8.9.0 on a system. It complains about
certain directories being group-writeable - didn't like the permissions
on /var:

# ls -ld /var
drwxrwxr-x 30 root system 512 Mar 10 21:02 /var

Easily fixed: "chmod 755 /var" and sendmail is happy.

Except that the permissions revert to 775 on every reboot. Why might
that be?

The only thing "different" about this particular system is that /var is
a separate disk partition, rather than contained within /usr.

Graham
Received on Wed Jun 24 1998 - 21:36:33 NZST

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