Hi again guys, 2012/11/11 Laurent Bigonville <bi...@debian.org>
> Le Sun, 11 Nov 2012 19:07:46 +0100, > Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> a écrit : > > > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 21:12:09 +0200, Laurent Bigonville wrote: > > > > > Le Sat, 29 Sep 2012 20:56:11 +0200, > > > Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> a écrit : > > > > > > > > > > > why is the last bit needed? > > > > > > > > I didn't get a reply to the above (why you need adduser nut nut). > > See #493159 > > This is to fix a situation were the user nut was not created without > being added to the group. Is that correct Arnaud? > indeed, we have some corner cases due to the modular and distributed nature of NUT: you may install the CGI alone, to monitor remote installation, then install nut (server | client ...) in the meantime, uninstall either ones, and still requires the user and group to be there. > > > > > > + if [ -d /var/run/nut ] ; then > > > > + chown root:nut /var/run/nut > > > > + chmod 770 /var/run/nut > > > > + fi > > > > > > > > why does the nut user need write access there? And why is this > > > > created in postinst instead of an init script? > > > > > > nut should be able to create sockets in that directory. > > > > > > This is probably a bit redundant as this is also done in the > > > initscript. > > > > > Then I'd prefer to not have it in postinst. > > Well this was a copy/paste of the nut-server postinstall script, so > this should also be removed from that file too. Do you want me to do > that for wheezy? right, that's part of the legacy (dead) code, prior to the volatile /var move. good to remove, since it's addressed in the sysV initscript. the question will probably pop-up again with systemd though! > The maintainer scripts should probably reworked a bit, > but that will be for later I guess. > yup, I'm still head underwater, concentrating on upstream lead :( and the backlog for debs is still huge, though Laurent's help has made a big difference in the past couple of years... cheers, Arnaud -- Linux / Unix / Opensource Engineering Expert - Eaton - http://opensource.eaton.com Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org Debian Developer - http://www.debian.org Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.fr
