On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Bevan Broun wrote:
> We have changed the permissions on /usr/var (/var -> /usr/var) to 755.
> On reboot these permissions get changed to 775 - anyone know why?
>
> [there is one question in the archives but no summary]
But there is a summary as was pointed out by
Irene A. Shilikhina" <irene_at_alpha.iae.nsk.su>
[Bevan didnt look hard enought :-[]
The summary is by Felix Maurer (maurerf_at_post.ch):
> Thank you to all who replied to my query:
>
> Tim Winders
> Lucio Chiappetti
> William Flett
> Dr. Tom Blinn
> Daniel Clar
> Larry Griffith
> Martin Mokrejs
> Ian Mortimer
>
> I got different kind of replies, the ones were confirming the some behaviour
> on their systems. Other giving the explanation why this problem appends
> after 2 system reboot (this is due to the fact that something appends during
> the system startup, but after sendmail activation).
>
> The Problem is well described by Daniel Clar:
>
> The problem has been reported to Digital here in Los Angeles.
> In fact, dtlogin is modifying /var protections.
> A work around is to add a chmod 755 /var command in the
> /sbin/rc3.d/S95xlogin
> file after CDE is started.
> I will have an answer soon on the reason why it's done so.
>
> My comment:
>
> As Compaq is not delivering sendmail 8.9.1 at the moment with DU, I doubt
> that they feel concerned with this problem. So lets go with the work around
> for now.
BB
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Received on Thu Jun 03 1999 - 07:54:59 NZST