Brook Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 02 April 2002 09:22 am, you wrote: > > On Tuesdayen den 2 April 2002 18.48, Frederic Lepied wrote: > > > Oden Eriksson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > Don't get me wrong..., "msec" is really good at what it is supposed to > > > > do, but it's a living hell if you want something else like "multilog -t > > > > /var/log/qmail", "multilog -t /var/log/smtp", etc. > > > > > > I don't know qmail but what is the problem exactly ? > > > > The best behaviour I could think of from msec is that it would at least > > stay away from changing uid/gid and dir/file attributes at will. > > > > If I make a directory "/var/log/qmail" that is controlled by a software not > > yet included in Mandrake, msec fucks this up by changing uid/dir + file/dir > > permissions (in this particular case the DJB software stops working). This > > pisses me off..., it's almost like a M$ phenomenon, "stupidifying" the > > user... All levels in "msec" needs to be checked over to reduce these kind > > of activities to nul... > Yes like I stated erlier msec completely changes all the permisions on all of > djb software which make it imposible for the software to run. It is so bad > that the only real solution is to uninstall and reinstall it all. I can't > remember specificly but at the tme of mandrake 8.0 pure-ftpd had this same > problem. It may however be fixed by now as pure is included in contribs at > least. > > It whould be nice to have a working qmail setup after a clean install. And at > least in my case I don't really want to uninstall msec as I enjoy the added > secutity that it gives me.
Sorry for the delay. First I must say that msec doesn't change the owner/group of subdirs of /var/log. If it'd do that it will have broken a lot of applicattions. It only changes the permissions and I understand that can be a problem if the group needs access to the subdir. Is it the case with qmail ? -- Fred - May the source be with you
