does ~mailman _REALLY_ need to be (2)775?
Because I stash sendmail aliases in ~mailman/aliases, I _don't_ have the mailman directory (2)775. But all the relevant places (that is, everything _BUT_ ~mailman/aliases).
Is there some reason that the configure script _HAS TO_ bomb out on me (and I have to change the permissions, and sendmail has to log to hell and back for 3 minutes, etc.)
Thanks Soren
"SD" == Soren Dayton <csdayton@cs.uchicago.edu> writes:
SD> Because I stash sendmail aliases in ~mailman/aliases, I
SD> _don't_ have the mailman directory (2)775. But all the
SD> relevant places (that is, everything _BUT_ ~mailman/aliases).
SD> Is there some reason that the configure script _HAS TO_ bomb
SD> out on me (and I have to change the permissions, and sendmail
SD> has to log to hell and back for 3 minutes, etc.)Hi Soren,
I'm not sure exactly which permission bits you're objecting to (is it the set-gid bit?) but once the initial install of the subdirs happens, nothing else gets written into ~mailman.
The configure script is anal about the perms on ~mailman because without this, it was too easy for the install to get screwed. At least on Solaris (not sure about Linux), group ownership on subdirs is only inherited from the parent dir if the set-gid bit is set. And before check_perms there was no way to easily fix this problem if your install was broken.
I think we're justified in making the configure script do the check because it greatly increases the chances that less experienced people will get the install correct. You're experienced enough to figure out several ways of working around this inconvenience.
-Barry
On 20-Jul-99 Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
I think we're justified in making the configure script do the check because it greatly increases the chances that less experienced people will get the install correct. You're experienced enough to figure out several ways of working around this inconvenience.
well can i say that some of us experienced people really appricate the permission checks anyway? :)
Ricardo.
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