Hi Daniel,
> /etc/security complains about the lost+found directory in /var/mail.
> Here is a diff to ignore a lost+found named directory in /var/mail:
Umm, i'm not convinced ignoring debris left over from file system repair
in /var/mail is a sane default. Being reminded to clean the mess up
doesn't seem that bad on first sight. Besides, there may be cases where
having a dedicated partition for /var/mail makes sense, but it is so
unusual that complicating the code in /etc/security for special-casing
it seems a bit excessive.
As far as i understand, lost+found is not created when creating a new
file system, but only by fsck_ffs(8) in case it is needed while cleaning
up a dirty file system, i.e. usually after a crash only. Thus, removing
it after reviewing and cleaning up the contents ought to be safe.
Yours,
Ingo
LEVAI Daniel wrote on Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 09:07:58AM +0100:
> --- security.orig Wed Aug 13 00:51:28 2008
> +++ security Sun Nov 1 09:04:48 2009
> @@ -434,7 +434,7 @@
> fi
>
> # Mailboxes should be owned by user and unreadable.
> -ls -l /var/mail | sed 1d | \
> +ls -l /var/mail | sed 1d | egrep -v '^d.* lost\+found$' \
> awk '$3 != $9 \
> { print "user " $9 " mailbox is owned by " $3 }
> $1 != "-rw-------" \
