From: petre rodan <kaiowas@gentoo.org>
To: russell@coker.com.au
Cc: selinux@tycho.nsa.gov
Subject: Re: gentoo diff for ntpd
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 18:04:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4166AC69.1010306@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410071702.33618.russell@coker.com.au>
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Hi Russell,
Russell Coker wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Oct 2004 20:49, petre rodan <kaiowas@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>>this is a new diff with distro_gentoo ifdefs dropped.
>>also, logrotate is not part of the gentoo base-policy and it shouldn't be a
>>dependency for ntpd, so I'm also ifdef-ing that.
>
>
> Having daemon binaries in /usr/bin instead of /usr/sbin is a bug.
>
> ntpd and ntpdate can not be used by regular users, they can only be used by
> the administrator. Therefore any distribution that follows the LSB (or the
> FHS which the LSB is based on) will put them in /usr/sbin.
You are correct. I have sent patches to gentoo bugzilla and upstream.
Let's hope at least one of those will like the idea.
bye,
peter
--
petre rodan
<kaiowas@gentoo.org>
Developer,
Hardened Gentoo Linux
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-08 15:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-05 8:25 gentoo diff for ntpd petre rodan
2004-10-05 13:14 ` Joshua Brindle
2004-10-06 10:49 ` petre rodan
2004-10-07 7:02 ` Russell Coker
2004-10-08 15:04 ` petre rodan [this message]
2004-10-08 17:59 ` James Carter
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