Package: mysql-server-5.0 Version: 5.0.45-1 Severity: normal I'm using the group ownership to manage the disk quotas of my users. The preinst script does the following each time:
find $DATADIR -follow -not -group mysql -print0 2>/dev/null \ | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty chgrp mysql This recursive chgrp-ing seems unnecessary to me. IMHO /var/lib/mysql should be included in the package, and the permissions managed by dpkg. This looks to me as a legacy quick&dirty fix. If you decide to leave it anyway, I'd recommend moving the command within the block that creates the data directory and also removing the "-follow" switch to find. Furthermore this comment: # Since the home directory was created before putting the user into # the mysql group and moreover we cannot guarantee that the # permissions were correctly *before* calling this script, we fix them now. # In case we use NIS and no mysql user is present then this script should # better fail now than later.. contradicts with the "set +e" seen below: # The "set +e" is necessary as e.g. a ".journal" of a ext3 partition is # not chgrp'able (#318435). set +e chown mysql:mysql $DATADIR find $DATADIR -follow -not -group mysql -print0 2>/dev/null \ | xargs -0 --no-run-if-empty chgrp mysql set -e -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=, LC_CTYPE= (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 depends on: ii adduser 3.104 add and remove users and groups ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.14 Debian configuration management sy ii libc6 2.6-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbi-perl 1.57-1 Perl5 database interface by Tim Bu ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-2 GCC support library ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.45-1 MySQL database client library ii libncurses5 5.6+20070716-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libreadline5 5.2-3 GNU readline and history libraries ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-14 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra ii lsb-base 3.1-24 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii mysql-client-5.0 5.0.45-1 MySQL database client binaries ii mysql-common 5.0.45-1 MySQL database common files ii passwd 1:4.0.18.1-11 change and administer password and ii perl 5.8.8-7 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii psmisc 22.5-1 Utilities that use the proc filesy ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-5 compression library - runtime Versions of packages mysql-server-5.0 recommends: pn mailx <none> (no description available) -- debconf information excluded -- Delian Krustev "The mind is a terrible thing to taste." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
