Re: Nitpicks? -- permissions

2010-09-13 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
I'm sorry to sound pedantic here, but I think this is a case where we can only fix it by looking at specific problems. Amcheck is pretty careful to give as many error messages as possible in each run, rather than simply bailing out after the first, so if there's a case where this does not happen,

Re: Nitpicks? -- permissions

2010-09-13 Thread Lisa Seelye
> On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Lisa Seelye wrote: > >> Disk permissions and file permissions are always a nightmare. Some >> things aren't right and amcheck complains about each one in turn. It >> would be useful to have some kind of thorough "lint" mode, perhaps with >> a --fix-permissions

Re: Nitpicks? -- permissions

2010-09-12 Thread Paul Bijnens
On 2010-09-12 17:25, Dustin J. Mitchell wrote: On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Lisa Seelye wrote: Disk permissions and file permissions are always a nightmare. Some things aren't right and amcheck complains about each one in turn. It would be useful to have some kind of thorough "lint" mode,

Re: Nitpicks? -- permissions

2010-09-12 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Lisa Seelye wrote: > Disk permissions and file permissions are always a nightmare. Some things > aren't right and amcheck complains about each one in turn. It would be > useful to have some kind of thorough "lint" mode, perhaps with a > --fix-permissions to repair

Re: Nitpicks? -- permissions

2010-09-11 Thread Lisa Seelye
> I bet most of you have some small nitpick with Amanda that you've > never felt warranted an email. Well, now's your chance! I'd like to put > some polish on Amanda, and it's hard for me to see the areas that need > burnishing, since I work on Amanda all day, every day. > > - typo in a manpage?