Re: [pcp] odd problem in qa/255 for UNIX domain socket for pmcd

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxxxxx>]

----- Original Message -----
> On 20/07/13 00:43, Dave Brolley wrote:
> > ...
> > We solved this by creating /var/run/pcp as '775 root pcp':
> >
> > commit f31ccfc82dfe79d444637b132feb71148458408c
> > Author: Dave Brolley <brolley@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date:   Wed Jul 3 21:19:16 2013 -0400
> >
> >      Make sure that $PCP_RUN_DIR is insatlled as '775 $PCP_USER
> > $PCP_GROUP'.
> 
> Thanks Dave.
> 
> But, ahem, that commit only fixes the problem for RPM based packaging
> ... the world is a little larger than that.
> 
> When these sort of changes are made in the RPM spec files, could we
> please have a volley of skyrockets and red flag waving so the non-rpm
> bunnies can make the matching changes for all the other packaging
> options supported by PCP?

FWIW, the top level GNUmakefile does this...

        $(INSTALL) -m 775 -g $(PCP_GROUP) -d $(PCP_RUN_DIR)

As a result, I thought we were covered for all the other package systems
(but admittedly I didn't check anything beyond that level).

cheers.

--
Nathan