Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:24:56 +0200
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
Cc: HL <freemail.grharry@gmail.com>, alpine-devel@lists.alpinelinux.org
Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Quagga setup bug
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On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:49:33 +0300
Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 15:24:25 +0200
> Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> wrote:
>=20
> > On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 12:48:00 +0300
> > HL <freemail.grharry@gmail.com> wrote:
> >=20
> > > On 30/08/2013 12:27 =CE=BC=CE=BC, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:35:35 +0300
> > > > HL <freemail.grharry@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hello,
> > > >>
> > > >> It seems that when installing quagga the /etc/quagga dir
> > > >> is owned by root.root but it should be quagga.root
> > > > Are you sure? quagga should not edit the config files itself,
> > > > should it?
> > > >
> > > > -nc
> > > Yes ...
> > > for instance ...
> > >=20
> > > Quagga programs have an interface similar to cisco
> > >=20
> > > telnet localhost zebra ...
> > > enable
> > > conf terminal
> > > bla bla bla
> > > write
> > >=20
> > > and the zebra process should be able to write the conf etc ...
> > >=20
> > >=20
> >=20
> > I checked what fedora does:
> > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/quagga.git/tree/quagga.spec#n131
> >=20
> > Basically, they make zebra.conf and vtysh.conf owned by quagga from
> > post-install script. They don't let quagga:quagga create new files or
> > delete existing by setting the permission on /etc/quagga. Instead,
> > quagga user can only edit existing files.
> >=20
> > basically, it is up to the creator of the files and quagga package
> > does not create them. Maybe it should?
>=20
> I thought quagga writes first a temp file to same dir, and then renames
> it as the original filename. I needed to make the dir writable to
> quagga because of this in many installs.
>=20

ok, lets chown quagga /etc/quagga then to keep things simple.

-nc


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