Brook Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thursday 11 April 2002 11:09 am, Frederic Lepied wrote: > > > 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 ? > > Remember qmail by default is in /var/qmail > > all it's binaries and everything operate out of there as per the license that > djb has for his software. I'm not sure I remember correctly as it has been a > long time since I tried to install it during the actual install but Think > that the permissions were incorrect in /var/log and msec does do something to > the /var/qmail directory also. I can't remember if it was permissions only or > if it changed user/group also for /var/qmail.
No msec doesn't change files/directories under /var, it only changes /var itself. That's very strange that msec breaks qmail as I remember Vincent has done tests and that was ok. Vincent ? -- Fred - May the source be with you
