Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 19:53:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 /etc/daily permissions Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960805195109.220B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960805075134.2682A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu>
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On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Annelise Anderson wrote: > I've been merging (alphabetically, which may not be such a great > idea) the 2.1.5 /usr/src/etc files with my old /etc, and > noticed that in /usr/src/etc the daily, weekly and monthly > files have 644 permissions....whereas the old ones are 755. > > I don't think they'll run with 644, will they? I would > think 744 would be appropriate. If you take a look at /etc/crontab (which are where daily, weekly, and monthly are run from): # do daily/weekly/monthly maintenance 0 2 * * * root /etc/daily 2>&1 | sendmail root 30 3 * * 6 root /etc/weekly 2>&1 |sendmail root 30 5 1 * * root /etc/monthly 2>&1 | sendmail root # They all run as root (which makes sense). > In general, are the permissions in /usr/src/etc designed to > be right, or designed to need configuration? /usr/src/etc is touched. I'd refer back to your old /etc (which you probably didn't back up, which you should have since your services file is now toasted). 644 makes more sense, or even 600 (does anyone really _need_ to see the maintenance scripts?). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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