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- From: rpruess@yoyo.weeg.uiowa.edu (Rex Pruess)
- Subject: Re: ownership of /bin/df and /etc/mtab
- In-Reply-To: gemoe@proximus.north.de's message of Wed, 6 Jan 1993 06:40:38 GMT
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- Organization: U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:06:58 GMT
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- gemoe@proximus.north.de (Gerhard Moeller) writes:
-
- > Well, maybe it's my fault, but I wonder why the permissions of mtab
- > and df are not right set, since 3.0:
- >
- > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root operator 6692 Jul 21 17:40 /bin/df*
- > -rw-r----- 1 root wheel 81 Jan 5 15:44 /etc/mtab
-
- Ejecting disks messes up the correct setting of "644" on /etc/mtab. One
- way to deal with this problem is to update the mode setting every 30
- minutes or so by putting the following line in /etc/crontab.local:
-
- 1,31 * * * * root /bin/chmod 644 /etc/mtab
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- Rex Pruess, Weeg Computing Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
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