On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 03:29:30AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > >>>>> " " == Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 02:10:19AM +0100, Goswin Brederlow > > wrote: > >> touch /var/run/debian-mirror.pid chown mirror.nogroup > >> /var/run/debian-mirror.pid > >> > >> touch /var/log/debian-mirror.log chown mirror.nogroup > >> /var/log/debian-mirror.log > > > Please don't do this. nogroup should not be the group of any > > files, just as nobody should not be the owner of any files. > > Ups, yes. > > What should I use? root?
It should be sufficient to just chown the file to user 'mirror', and leave the group as the default (usually root, but maybe modified by the admin by the permissions on /var/run). -- - mdz
