>On Oct 17 1999, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>> And I asked after the first time if anybody had any idea what caused
>> this to happen; I haven't seen any responses / suggestions yet. I'm
>> not particularly suspicious that qmail somehow does it to itself,
>> mind. But it comes up *so often* that I'd really like to know how it
>> happens. I haven't done it yet, and I'd like to keep it that way :-)
This is most likely caused by people trying to copy /var/qmail using "cp -r".
It could also be that they copy /var/qmail using tar but not as root and
not using the -p option (if the user is not root tar will use the current
umask with the -x option).
Maybe (needs to be checked) installing qmail as a user different from root
has the same impact.
David.
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