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Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 16:49:33 +0300
From: Timo Teras <timo.teras@iki.fi>
To: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
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 15:24:25 +0200
Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> wrote:

> 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?

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.

- Timo



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