"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Perl seems to be Mandrakesoft's interpreter of choice for writing > it's utilities. Why is msec written in Python? On my server I can > only find msec and spec-helper that need Python.
I don't think spec-helper is really needed on a server. > msec doesn't seem so special that it needs Python in particular. Why > not stick to the (apparent) standard and (re-)write it in Perl? I agree it would have been better to write it in perl but I'm not a perl developer. If you want to contribute a port, it'll be great. > Given that, msec seems to be printing in my log over and over again: > > Apr 9 22:01:28 linux msec: changed owner of /usr/src from brian to root > Apr 9 22:01:28 linux msec: changed group of /usr/src from brian to root > > but the directory never changes. Perhaps at level 2 (which my server > is at) it is only supposed to be a warning (I can't tell from the > script, I can't read Python, much less write it), but if that is the > case should it not say something like: > > msec: owner of /usr/src should be changed from brian to root > > More a direction to the admin that a statement of what has been done > when it hasn't actually been done. I don't see what is going wrong here. Are you sure nothing else is changing the owner/group. I have reproduced what you were trying to do without problem: [root@montreal root]# chown flepied.flepied /usr/src [root@montreal root]# ll -d /usr/src drwxr-xr-x 7 flepied flepied 4096 Apr 8 16:44 /usr/src/ [root@montreal root]# msec [root@montreal root]# ll -d /usr/src drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Apr 8 16:44 /usr/src/ -- Fred - May the source be with you
