Marcel Telka wrote: > On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 12:33:19PM +0000, Paul Cunningham wrote: >> This looks okay to me too. But I must point out that the files delivered > > Thanks, Paul. > >> into /usr (see prototype_com) have the 'write' permission bit set >> (including the new file for this version). > > This is really important. I looked around to see whether the mutt is alone, > but > I found following on my Nevada build 126: > > $ ls -la /usr/bin/|grep ^-.-|wc -l > 1242 > $ ls -la /usr/bin/|grep ^-.w|wc -l > 663 > $ > > So it seems it is about 2:1 (read only vs. read/write) :-). > > I compared with some Linux distribution and I found that there is less than 5 > % > files with read only. Everything else is rw. > > > Is there any recommendation/standard for Solaris?
I think that might be that all *new* files going into /usr from sfw should not have it set - but check with Norm Jacobs <Norm.Jacobs at sun.com>; but in some cases they are being changed as the pkg is updated to a newer version. Paul
