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- From: pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald)
- Subject: Re: Question and Observations
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.005200.10045@sol.UVic.CA>
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria B.C. CANADA
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 00:52:00 GMT
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- > the thing that I would honestly like to know is...from
- >peter mcdonald (I think)...have you ever set up the SLS distribution
- >under a multi-user environment? From the way I see things running,
- >and permissions set, I don't see how...unless what is being distributed
- >is not the same?
-
-
- What you fail to understand is that SLS is not a snapshot like 386BSD.
- It is a collection of packages. Some packages get updated occasionally
- and other new ones appear. If a later package happens to contain
- a duplicate copy with the wrong perms (or say a man page, or just
- another copy of a directory, which changes it's permissions), bang
- another permission gets hosed.
-
- I have repeatedly asked someone to volunteer to write a script to set
- permissions, but no such luck. A real problem is that there is no
- real agreement on what the correct permissions/ownerships should be.
- How about you Marc? Care to put your money where your mouth (or fingers) are?
-
- Peter.
-