Re: ff.core on Solaris 2.4

Pete Shipley (shipley@merde.dis.org)
Thu, 05 Jan 1995 12:30:46 -0800

>In your message of Wed, 04 Jan 1995 15:53:36 GMT, you say:
>
>>Finally, my newly upgraded system appears to have /usr and /usr/sys (probably
>>others too) in group sys and group writable. I chmoded this, but then a
>>subsequent installpatch set them back again. Is there a database online
>>somewhere that I can correct this information in to prevent installpatch doin
}g
>>this?
>
>There's a command-line option to installpatch (and to the cluster patch
>sets, as I recall) that will cause it to skip the permission checks.
>If it installs a new file replacing the one you already chmod'ed, it
>may change the perms back though.
>
>This is on Solaris 2.3, so it's probably in the sol24 patches as well...
>although, knowing Sun, it probably isn't ;)
>
>>From memory, I think it's "-u".
>

Also there is a command called pkgchk

ie:
    pkgchk -a -p /etc/passwd
will tell you the correct permissions