Matt Zimmerman wrote: > The most inconvenient bit, to me, is that it breaks path completion when > editing these files with sudo. > > sudo vi /etc/logcheck/ignore.d/<tab>...<tab>...<swear> Yes, that was annoying. > Presumably the usual dpkg directory permissions semantics. I forget who > wins; the most recent maybe? At any rate, they're all unreadable on the > systems that I checked. dpkg takes the brain-dead approach of using the earliest directory permission. There was a thread once about changing this. In the meantime, whenever you change a directory permission you should try to do something sane in your postinst. In the case of logcheck, it's hard to say what's sane, since the admin may have came to rely on 700. -- see shy jo
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