On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 01:47:29PM +0100, Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [031130 05:53]: > > Some daemons such as cups are written in a way that requires that they be > > able to write to their own configuration files. If such a daemon is run as > > non-root then the files will have to be owned by non-root if the "create > > new > > file and rename" method of file update is used. > > Could anyone familar with cups explain why this is no RC-bug? After all, > if it gets changed by the daemon it really sounds like a state file that > should be in /var and not like a configuration file.
As long as the admin's changes to the configuration file (by hand) are preserved, it is fine for it to be modified. -- - mdz