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

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