Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 09:26:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com To: Grossniklaus Bruno cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: ProFTPD 1.2.9rc2: "missing /var/log/wtmp" In-Reply-To: <3F710B1D0009C8EA@mssbzhh-int.msg.bluewin.ch> Message-ID: References: <3F710B1D0009C8EA@mssbzhh-int.msg.bluewin.ch> Importance: Normal MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Grossniklaus Bruno wrote: > Hello Igor > > >if [ ! -d /var/log ] ; then \ > > mkdir -p /var/log ; > >fi > >if [ ! -f /var/log/wtmp ] ; then \ > > touch /var/log/wtmp ; > >fi > > > >FWIW, it'd be safer to also check whether this file is a symlink (i.e., > >add "-a ! -l /var/log/wtmp" to the test), but this should do for now. ^ Umm, make that "-h"... Sorry. > What about a chmod 666 /var/log/wtmp after the touch? > > Bruno Yep, forgot that. Ok, take 2: if [ ! -d /var/log -a ! -h /var/log ] ; then \ mkdir -p /var/log ; chmod a+x /var ; chmod 1777 /var/log ; fi if [ ! -f /var/log/wtmp -a ! -h /var/log/wtmp ] ; then \ touch /var/log/wtmp ; chmod 666 /var/log/wtmp ; fi Thanks for the comments, Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/