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Re: cygcheck improvements


On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 06:31:46PM -0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>
>> Fair enough.  I guess what I was saying is that the addition of the two
>> things I mentioned would make that part of cygcheck output all the more
>> valuable.  :-)
>
>  Oh yes, totally agree!  But that's a slightly longer-term project :)
>
>> BTW, one thing that's been suggested a while ago is to have cygcheck
>> report the user mounts for "SYSTEM" -- that may prevent services from
>> working properly, and is rather hard to get from the command line (without
>> getting into the whole sysbash process, that is).
>
>  While we're at it, it should check the owner/perms on all those
>whichever-they-are logfiles that sometimes get owned by the user-id (as a
>result of having tested starting up the daemon from the commandline) with
>u+a/go-a perms causing services to fail when they later try to run as
>SYSTEM.[*]

How about checking owner/perms of standard utilities and directories?

cgf

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