My guess is, poorly behaved installation scripts for some package(s) that insists $install_dir have the permissions it thinks are sane. On Sep 26, 2015 12:52 PM, "Rich Shepard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> This has been going on for a long time; now I want to understand what's > happening. > > I use the /opt directory (owned by root.root) for locally-built, > non-distribution applications. As such I set the permissions to 777 so I > can > access it and all subdirectories. Every now and then, on an infrequent and > unpredictable schedule, the permissions revert to 755. > > What might be possible causes of this change? > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
