On 4/10/07, bardo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/10/07, Dale Blount <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > UUCP is dead (and has been for years), so should the GID be. > > That's nice to hear. So what? Are you going to patch rxtx? Because > it's not going to work otherwise. Or maybe create a "lock" group that > provides that functionality and let it own /var/lock. The alternative > is virtually killing any program that relies on FHS specs to work...
Whoa, a little aggressive here? Anyway, feel free to look into this issue as you are the largest stakeholder. I'd recommend looking into what permissions other distros put on this directory. Clearly rxtx is not the real problem here. >From a Red Hat box I can look at: drwxrwxr-x 7 root lock 4096 Apr 10 04:02 lock And dreamhost: drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4.0K 2007-04-10 06:26 lock -Dan _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
