group writable __db files

[David Relson]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 09:42:30 -0600
Fletcher Mattox wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I need for the __db lock files to be group writable, but seem
> unable to make that happen with umask.  I even added a umask(002) to
> the startup code in bogomain.c.  But after a while, the __db files
> are mode 0644 again.  Any idea what I'm doing wrong?  This is
> bogofilter 0.93.1, by the way.
> 
> Thanks
> Fletcher

Hi Fletcher,

The short answer is "No".  The symptoms you describe, i.e. file
permissions changing unexpectedly, sound like the side effects of msec
(mandrake security) on my Mandrake machine.   What distribution are you
running? Does it have any security related daemons or cron jobs that
might be responsible?  Is there a pattern to when the permissions
change, i.e. do they change on the hour or at 0400??

Regards,

David

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