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Re: ff.core on Solaris 2.4
From: shipley () merde dis org (Pete Shipley)
Date: 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
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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
Current thread:
- ff.core on Solaris 2.4 Bonfield James (Jan 04)
- Solaris D C Holt (Jan 04)
- Re: ff.core on Solaris 2.4 Justin Mason (Jan 05)
- Re: ff.core on Solaris 2.4 Pete Shipley (Jan 05)