[581] in bugtraq
Re: ff.core on Solaris 2.4
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Mason)
Thu Jan 5 06:44:53 1995
To: Bonfield James <jkb@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: <9501041553.AA29331@al.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 1995 10:25:24 +0000
From: Justin Mason <jmason@iona.ie>
In your message of Wed, 04 Jan 1995 15:53:36 GMT, you say:
>Finally, my newly upgraded system appears to have /usr and /usr/sys (probably
>others too) in group sys and group writable. I chmoded this, but then a
>subsequent installpatch set them back again. Is there a database online
>somewhere that I can correct this information in to prevent installpatch doing
>this?
There's a command-line option to installpatch (and to the cluster patch
sets, as I recall) that will cause it to skip the permission checks.
If it installs a new file replacing the one you already chmod'ed, it
may change the perms back though.
This is on Solaris 2.3, so it's probably in the sol24 patches as well...
although, knowing Sun, it probably isn't ;)
From memory, I think it's "-u".
--j.
