* Gergely Madarasz said: > > it makes hard links in /tmp? this seems like bad design in general > > as many people have /var and / (and/or /tmp) on separate partitions > > in which case hard links won't work anyway, patch or not. > > No, it doesn't make hard links in /tmp. It makes hard links within It doesn't make cross fs links, true. > /var/lib/mailman/lists, sometimes as a different user as the file was > originally created with (mail, www-data and list are the possibilities). The /var/lib/mailman/lists catalog is SGID 'list' but files are owned by root.lists (why?) - I see no reason for Mailman to run as root (!!), it's more reasonable to run it as lists and make the entire tree owned by this user. That's how I changed my setup - Mailman always runs as list and the tree belongs to list. > I haven't read the original problem so I don't know what is exactly the > case, but for example solar designers secure linux patch prevents > hardlinks like this, so it can't be used with mailman :/ Exactly what the original problem was about. I'm using the Solar Desginer's patch and Mailman works provided I make the changes described above. I think they should be the default for each and every package that uses hardlinks for any reason. marek
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