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Re: pcp files/dirs in /etc not owned by root

To: Ken McDonell <kenj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: pcp files/dirs in /etc not owned by root
From: fche@xxxxxxxxxx (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:34:46 -0400
Cc: PCP <pcp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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In-reply-to: <54234B15.1050901@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Ken McDonell's message of "Thu, 25 Sep 2014 08:52:05 +1000")
References: <54234B15.1050901@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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kenj wrote:

> [...]

In general, right on, thank you for looking into this.

> [...]
> /etc/pcp/pmcd/pmcd.options
> [...]

On my machine, this is:

% ls -al /etc/pcp/pmcd/pmcd.conf /etc/pcp/pmcd/pmcd.options
-rw-r--r--. 1 root  pcpqa 770 Apr 23 21:26 /etc/pcp/pmcd/pmcd.conf
-rw-r--r--. 1 pcpqa pcpqa 606 Apr  7 21:58 /etc/pcp/pmcd/pmcd.options

It indicates that running the pcpqa suite leaves stains, as it were,
on the well-bleached defaults that come with the base package.  (I've
long dreamed of a pcpqa implementation that leaves the /etc/pcp/*
files and system daemons well alone, and runs private copies on
alternate ports etc. only.)

- FChE

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