Well, at first I supposed that I was wrong, that I drunk too much. But now I know that there is something that must be like a joke in current 8.2 beta. I agree: Linux is hard to use, so Mandrake is making it easy. But now Mandrake is making his own decision, over SysAdmin decision. Here you are some example:
1) In /etc/cron.daily I delete msec (it's a simbolic link). It's somehow recreated!!! What shall I do now? Put one more script in cron.hourly to delete the cron.daily self-created link to msec? 2) In /home. First of all we are going out of any Unix philosophy: since 1970 homedirs are 700, now they are created as 711. I don't think this is the right default, anyway it's just a personal opinion, so I simply run "chmod 700 <homedir>". OK. NO! It seems OK, but it will be 711 again after a system reboot!!!! I cannot believe it!!! Please PLEASE users cannot be overrided in this way. Or just cleany explain during installation how to disable this disgusting behaviour. So now auto-mount, auto-device-generation, auto-permission, auto-script-generation auto-* ...could I use my brain to decide?!? Thanks, Claudio
