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RE: cygcheck improvements


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.[*]


    cheers,
      DaveK

[*] Heh, or was it the other way round?
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