On Sunday 21 January 2001 19:49, you wrote:
> civileme wrote:
> > Yipes.... I am the one who sent info on the symlinks for /var to various
> > people on the lists back in the 6.1 days....
> >
> > Unfortunately new things have been homed in /var and the result is that
> > you can run /var as part of / or as a separate partition but not as a
> > symlink.... At least this is the situation beginning with 7.2 -- some of
> > the things in /var now like htmldocs or ftp like to do a ../ to go to the
> > root directory and it doesn't work too well if they end up at /home
> > instead.
> >
> > Civileme
>
> The good news is that this print server isn't yet running 7.2. If the
> change began with 7.2 then I am still fine. Do you happen to have any
> information on what the permissions should be on the various directories
> and files in /var under the old distributions? Especially those related
> to Samba and printing? I am almost 100% positive that my problem relates
> to ownership rights since I made the error of not forcing those to
> remain the same when I did my copy.
>
> Traci
Mmmm, I think I would try the semi-automatic method---
chmod 0755 -R /var
chmod 0775 -R /var/spool/samba
And if anything is set too "loose", root will receive mail about it and it
can be fixed. I do assume medium or higher security is set.
and alias cp='cp -a' is a great assist in these matters, for future
operations.
Civileme
