From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Sep 13 12:49:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F55D37B422 for ; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:49:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA14981; Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:49:17 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:02:03 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Gregory Edigaroff Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: A proposed new flag to make.conf In-Reply-To: <200009131827.VAA00785@Thing-Fish.Kharkov.NET> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Gregory Edigaroff wrote: > What about putting a flag which can be used to switch whether to change > or not the permissions on the directories? > I think it is necessary for those administrators who used non-standard values > for the permissions on /var/spool, for example. > The next installworld will certainly smash it all up and set the standard > values for all the directories. > But this isn't a right thing. Make.conf wouldn't be the place for this. The mtree databases would be the place. Perhaps you should look at how mtree runs during install and localize it to suit your needs. Perhaps create /etc/mtree/BSD.local.diffs and run mtree on that. Or, keeping in the spirit of /etc/defaults, add /etc/defaults/mtree to the source code and allow /etc/mtree to contain local variations. The first idea you can do right now. The second idea needs a champion. I am proposing neither, really. I am just trying to give you an idea to suit your current needs. Thank you, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message