Stefan Hornburg (Racke) wrote: > Marco Solieri wrote: > > Package: sympa > > Version: 5.2.1-0.1 > > Severity: grave > > Tags: experimental > > Justification: renders package unusable > > > > After a fresh installation lot of important Sympa files are owned by > > root:root and are unaccessable. This is because sympa processes run as > > sympa user. > > > > The configuration process itself suffers this problem reporting > > errors probably due to this. In fact '/etc/sympa/data_structure.version' > > is owned by root and this make the configuration process fail. > > > > Moreover the entire '/usr/lib/sympa/' directory is owned (according with > > postinst script) by root. I fixed setting up user and group to > > sympa:sympa on that subtree. > > /usr/lib/sympa is owned by root on purpose, the data directories for sympa > are within /var.
There are some files which need to be readable from user sympa: some in /usr/lib/sympa, other in /etc/sympa (/etc/sympa/data_structure.version). Take a look on errors raised during package configuration. What to do? Make these files being world readable, or change the owner user/group? -- Marco Solieri aka SoujaK
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