Date: Mon, 5 Aug 1996 22:39:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5 /etc/daily permissions Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960805223425.7631A-100000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960805195109.220B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 5 Aug 1996, Doug White wrote: > 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). I knew that; it just wasn't clear what the consequences would be. > > > 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). But I did; I have two backups. /etc was not, however, changed in the slightest by the sup/make world/kernel recompile process, so I can apparently merge from /usr/src/etc at will. > > 644 makes more sense, or even 600 (does anyone really _need_ to see the > maintenance scripts?). Certainly not I; I've edited them rather often to add various things. That wasn't the question. > > 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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