Been running, testing, re-installing and rebooting a lot of times since
my post above.
I've noted that in
/etc/cron.daily/spamassassin
there is umask 022 to updated the spam assassin rules, and consistently
"the system" will fail to install or fall over if login.defs is changed
to 027 on reboot
[SOLVED] (possibly I don't want to appear too arrogant on my first post
:)
I updated my 12.04 to 14.04 with no problems and then recently I decided
to increase my security with various tools like tripwire, ,tiger and
lynis and one of the "recommendations" was to tighten up the security on
gcc whic