[278] in Project_DB
Re: Needless disruption of Project DB last week by O&S.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Jan 12 15:40:38 1998
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:38:21 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: "Peter B. Kelley" <kelley@MIT.EDU>
Cc: rar@MIT.EDU, rferrara@MIT.EDU, o&s-facmgt@MIT.EDU, project-db@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19980112203159.0070623c@po10.mit.edu>
Excerpts from mail: 12-Jan-98 Re: Needless disruption of .. "Peter B.
Kelley"@MIT.ED (2061*)
> Bill,
> I just double-checked all scripts that get run. In no case does any script
> change the access on the '/usr/local' directory. We've run into this
> problem before on '/usr/local/bin', and we explicitly check for '755' on
> that directory just to make sure that access is set correctly.
> --Pete
Thank you for the quick response to my concern.
How is it that you've run into a problem before of /usr/local having
incorrect modes? This never happens with any of the E40 servers. Might
there be a problem with personnel changing things and not keeping track
of what they do? Or perhaps a script that changes the modes in a
non-obvious way? These sorts of mysteries are disasters waiting to
happen.
One of the ways in which we try to head off such mysteries is to do
audits of changes to scripts. Maybe sometime we should get your
developers together with some folks from over here and do a code walk
through or audit of the scripts you install on machines you take care of.
It might be a fun bit of cross-polination of culture. And the code
would probably benefit from the additional scrutiny.
-wdc
