James, 
I know nothing about Mandrake but it sounds as a cron job is
running 'checksecurity' - look for suitable documentation or 
start messing with /etc/checksecurity.conf

Mutex - resource locking routines?

On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 02:46:51AM -0700, James wrote:
> At 12:00 each night, my installation of Mandrake 7.02 makes a security
> check on all things.  Sometimes it automatically changes ownership of
> files that it thinks are vulnerable or dangerous.  Tonight at 12:00 it
> changed all my "Group Unowned Files" to "nogroup" and suddenly I get the
> error 
> 
> "alert: cannot start: unable to access queue directory"
> 
> when I try to run the qmail rc file.
> 
> So I manually make the directory accessible, then try to run ./rc again
> (from /var/qmail) and get this error:
> 
> "alert: cannot start: unable to open mutex"
> 
> Am I going to have to reinstall Mandrake with the lowest security setting
> to keep it from meddling in my qmail settings?  What the heck is "mutex?"
> 
> james

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J�rgen Persson

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