On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 12:42:55PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
: Aaron Schrab <mutt> [17/08/01 01:58 -0500]:
:
: > O DontBlameSendmail=GroupWritableDirPathSafe
:
: So it's true that / is world writeable in OSX? Ouch.
Not world-writable, just group-writable. Still bad.
: A chmod or two (and avoiding the use of HFS - which might break
: compatiblity with older Mac OSen) might be a great idea before
: compiling any *nix stuff - esp sendmail - on OS X.
Actually, most Unix stuff compiles pretty well on OS X on an HFS+ volume
with its case-insensitive case-preserving ways. But there are issues
with a few things like Perl that installing things its HTTP script
/usr/bin/HEAD, which on an HFS+ system clobbers /usr/bin/head. Java has
problems because apparently some class files only differ by case (where
the capitalized version has a set of classes, and the lowercase version
is just code).
--
Eugene Lee
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