[Noffle-devel] Re: [Noffle-users] Big Problems with noffle 1.1.2 ...

[Mirko L. <mir...@we...>]

Jim Hague wrote:
> On 30-Sep-2002 Mirko Liss wrote:
> > Do we need to add uname(022) to src/noffle.c:initNoffle(), Jim?
> > I suppose SuSE 8.0 is just a hostile environment for any 
> > self-compiled software.
> 
> Thanks for looking into that, Mirko. I had only limited success reading my
> email last week.
> 
> I've not tried SuSE 8.0. I assume that they have some pretty hostile default
> umask. Out of interest, what exactly is it?

I don't use SuSE 8.0 either, so I'm afraid I don't know it. It was just
quick guesswork. Thorsten replied to me and told me it fixed the bug.


> >From what you said, it seems that the permissions on the /var/spool/noffle
> directory were the problem. We don't create that directory inside Noffle,
> though we do create subdirectories. So if I understand you right, we need to
> look at the RPM to get the permissions right creating /var/spool/noffle *and*
> reset the umask when creating subdirectories.

I haven't looked at the rpm yet, so I can't tell anything about it.

Thorsten's noffle used to do what he expected until he added 'noffle --fetch'
to /etc/ppp/ip-up.local. His giant log file noted wrong file permissions of the
files in the outgoing/news.cis.fn.de/ directory, the lock and lastupdate files.
Have I forgotten some entries when skimming through the log?


Friendly regards,

Mirko