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From: houghi on 31 Mar 2008 06:36
Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
> Check e.g. /etc/permissions.d/postfix or other schemes in /etc/permission*
> Also check /etc/chkconfig/permissions.

The final answer was inderectly from here

> The root cause? No idea, but I think SuSEconfig isn't always 100%
> accurate when it runs /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.permissions.

Yes, it does.

I had it happen again and started looking innto it a bit better. I also
noticed that I had problems with `crontab -e`

So what I did was look up /etc/permission and there it said I needed to
run `chkstat -set /etc/permissions`. That worked great, because
there were no changes.
Next I ran `chkstat -set /etc/permissions.easy` and that gave me errors
that it wasn't able to change the settings.

That was very odd, I thought and then I realised that all errors where
from /usr.

I then realised I had placed all of /usr in a seperate directory on a
different drive instead of making a new partition and that was causing
the error.

Now why did I not have any problems earlier? First because I did not see
them. Second because before that I just had copied the directory,
maintaining the rights.

Then somewhat later I answerd a question about the permisssions and did
a test. Apparently that was enough to cause some changes.

As everything else seemed to be working, I drew the wrong conclusion of
the cause of the error.

So as per usual PEBCAK.

So to very fast change your rights (e.g. if somebody is temporarily
working on your machine) you can do the following: `chkstat -set
/etc/permissions.paranoid` and to set it back `chkstat -set
/etc/permissions.easy`

Remember that the setting will be set back to the default when you run
SuSEconfig, which happens when you do an installation or update.

Obviously you can change /etc/permissions[.*] or even add your own, yet
only do that if you know what you are doing. ;-)


houghi
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