[Mailman-Users] Permission of data/bounce-events-?????.pck

[Clovis Tristao]

Mark Sapiro wrote:
> imacat wrote:
>   
>>    I was checking my system for world-writable files, and found lots of
>> data/bounce-events-?????.pck that are world-writable:
>>
>> imacat at rinse ~ % ls -lt /var/lib/mailman/data | grep 'rw. '
>> -rw-rw-rw-  1 list list       0 2006-01-31 01:26 bounce-events-02258.pck
>> -rw-rw-rw-  1 list list    4786 2005-12-26 17:36 bounce-events-26086.pck
>> =2E..
>> imacat at rinse ~ %
>>
>>    I searched the archive and know that they can be safely deleted.
>> But, is that "world-writable" intended?  I'm a little worry about it.
>>     
>
>
> Under normal circumstances, the lifetime of this file is at most
> REGISTER_BOUNCES_EVERY (default = 15 minutes). The old orphaned ones
> will never be read by Mailman, so the exposure isn't too great. The
> reading of the file is protected in a try, so I think the worst that
> might happen if it got clobbered is that you'd lose a few bounce
> events.
>
> But to answer your question, what's the default umask on your system? I
> think that's what controls this.
>
>   
Hi,

How I make to erase these archives? I can do it?
I have archives since Novembro/2005.
Thanks a lot,
Clóvis

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