On Fri, 9 Mar 2018, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > another question based on something that tripped me up last week > teaching, when i tried a simple demo and was confused by the result. > > was demonstrating how "rpm -V" could verify an installed package, > and randomly chose the "setup" package since it consists of numerous > fundamental system files for which some errors in verification would > be cause for concern, and got the following on my F27 system: > > $ rpm -V setup > .M....... c /etc/fstab > S.5....T. c /etc/printcap > S.5....T. c /etc/profile > .M....G.. g /var/log/lastlog > $ > > i have no problem with files whose contents will invariably change > after further configuration, but i was confused about the "M" flag > for /etc/fstab, suggesting that the mode (type/permissions) for that > file were different from the installation values. > > as i see it, why should any system config file like /etc/fstab > change its mode after installation? shouldn't a file like that be > installed with the correct mode from the beginning? > > i took a look at the spec file for that package here: > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/setup/blob/master/f/setup.spec > > and i notice that other files, after being "touch"ed, are chmoded to > 0644, but not /etc/fstab/, whose current mode on my system is 0664: > > -rw-rw-r--. 1 root root 628 Jan 14 2016 /etc/fstab > > as a test, i chmod'ed /etc/fstab to 0644, and the verify diagnostic > went away. as another random example, i verified the systemd package and got (in part) much the same: $ rpm -V systemd .M....... c /etc/locale.conf .M....... c /etc/machine-id .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/basic.target.wants .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.target.wants .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/getty.target.wants .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/local-fs.target.wants .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/network-online.target.wants .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/printer.target.wants .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/remote-fs.target.wants .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants .M....... g /etc/systemd/system/timers.target.wants ... snip ... all of these verify warnings seem unnecessary, but i'm willing to be corrected as to what is actually happening here. rday _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
