On 10-Apr-05, 08:22 (CDT), Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Steve, as promised on debian-devel, here's a patch against cron's
> postinst that I suggest to adjust permissions of the
> /var/spool/cron/crontabs directory plus included crontabs.
Cool, looks good.
> I'm not sure whether the conversion of /var/spool/cron/crontabs should
> be guarded by the dpkg-statoverride test, IMHO only the chgrp and chmod
> of /usr/bin/crontab should be done conditionally, I didn't change that
> in the patch below though.
The theory behind putting all of the changes inside the
dpkg-statoverride test is that *if* the admin has changed the
permissions/ownership on /usr/bin/crontab, they must *also* have
adjusted permissions/ownership on the user crontabs, or the thing just
won't work (or, they aren't using/allowing user crontabs at all). In any
case, they've taken responsibility, and I don't want to touch it.
Gerrit, I'm not going to upload with this patch until after sarge has
released, as I don't think this is the time to introduce something as
big as this (not that the cron patch is a big deal, but that the whole
bcron alternative is). If you disagree, and really want to push this
into sarge, then convince the release managers and get back to me.
Regards,
Steve
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