[pca] Patchdiag file permissions

[John Horne]

On Fri, 2008-03-07 at 13:05 +0100, Martin Paul wrote:
> John Horne wrote:
> > On a Solaris 10 system I have just noticed that the patchdiag file
> > in /var/tmp has the following permissions:
> > 
> >   -rw-rw-rw-   1 root     root     2561738 Mar  7 11:21 patchdiag.xref
> 
> Yes, that's the default. The reason behind this is that usually the same 
> copy of patchdiag.xref is used by all users who run pca on a system. As 
> pca by default keeps the xref file up-to-date, it must be writable by 
> all users.
> 
Okay, thanks for the explanation. On our systems only root runs pca, so
I have set the xrefown in the config file.


John.

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