Logcheck devel - Oct 2004 - [ttroxell@debian.org: Re: issue with permissions]

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----- Forwarded message from Todd Troxell <ttroxell at debian.org> -----

From: Todd Troxell <ttroxell at debian.org>
To: maks attems <debian at sternwelten.at>
Subject: Re: [Logcheck-devel] issue with permissions

On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:04:52PM +0200, maks attems
wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, maks attems wrote:
> 
> sorry my aboves was quite broken, better proposition (sort of diff):
>
Sorry, I read your text and not your patch.  <:  I thought you meant to
remove the conditionals and set owners and permissions always?
> what about changing our tactics and unconditionalize aboves permissions
> fixes, is anyway a good idea for loca-foo files?
Yeahhh, this might be a problem simply because we are not supposed to modify
things that we didn't create. :\  Hmmmmm
> we might have problems if the user logcheck doesn't exist so.
> so better check before:
> if [ $(getent passwd logcheck | awk -F: '{print $1}') !=
"logcheck" ]; then
> 	# Add logcheck user
> fi
>  	# Fix Permissions
Sounds reasonable...

I will ponder this a bit..  Any suggestions are welcome.

Cheers,
-- 
[   Todd J. Troxell                                         ,''`.
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Todd Troxell wrote:
> ----- Forwarded message from Todd Troxell <ttroxell at debian.org>
-----
> 
> Sorry, I read your text and not your patch.  <:  I thought you meant to
> remove the conditionals and set owners and permissions always?
done in current cvs.
 
> > what about changing our tactics and unconditionalize aboves
permissions
> > fixes, is anyway a good idea for loca-foo files?
> 
> Yeahhh, this might be a problem simply because we are not supposed to
modify
> things that we didn't create. :\  Hmmmmm
they might be not readable by logcheck,
and files under /etc/logcheck are supposedly for logcheck.
 
> Sounds reasonable...
> 
> I will ponder this a bit..  Any suggestions are welcome.
looked around and implemented distcc bits,
you may want to look at gdm for alternate way.

tests of current cvs are welcome, had no time yet to prepare a test deb.
my Makefile changes may interfer also?

so be cautious, my load is so high currently,
that's the most i could atm, will try to be back that weekend
for more solid stuff. so please do not rush.

--
maks