On Thu Apr 11, 2002 at 07:24:19PM -0400, Fred Lepied wrote: [...] > > 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 ?
I have had 0 problems with msec and qmail... I run qmail on every machine here (except the PPC machines, just because I haven't gotten around to them yet). On my workstation, my wife's workstation, and my laptop, all using qmail, I've never had qmail break due to msec being run (always on medium level), and I've not had to tweak any permission issues to tell msec to "behave". Fred, as an aside, does msec support "includes" in the local files? Ie. is there a way we could include a config file within level.local or perms.local somehow? For some "wierd" software, like qmail and djbdns, possibly others, it might be nice if we could have %post add a "include qmail.msec" or something to the file, and have qmail.msec contain some special permissions for files. But, again, I've not experienced anything like this personally. If someone likes, I can investigate this further to determine if such a problem does exist. The big questions to ask are: 1) Are you using my qmail rpms or building qmail from source? Might be some very small differences 2) What msec level are you using? 3) What errors are you getting? Ie. what is msec changing (what it's changing *from* and what it's changing *to*), and what (in qmail) is now refusing to work? -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://www.freezer-burn.org/bios/vdanen.gpg | gpg --import" 1024D/FE6F2AFD 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD Current Linux kernel 2.4.18-6mdk uptime: 4 days 12 hours 18 minutes.
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