On Saturday August 16 2008 19:50:29 David Shochat wrote: > Timothy J. Hamilton wrote: > > I tried editing servers.xml as root. No help. I changed permissions and > > > > ownership. Setting owner as forbidden to write & setting ownership of > > the file > > > > to root. > > > > On startup both times, Pan acted as if it were a new install. Entries > > in the > > > > edited servers.xml were removed. > > > > It would seem that somewhere Pan is not respecting *nix file ownership > > settings > > > > and permissions at least when it comes to servers.xml. > > servers.xml is in .pan2. So as long as you have write access to .pan2 > (which would normally be the case), pan could, if it wanted to, delete > servers.xml, no matter what its ownership/permissions might be, and > re-create it. I do not know that pan does this nor why it would want to; > I'm just saying that nothing would prevent it from doing that. Deleting > a file requires only write-access to the directory containing it. > -- David > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-users mailing list > Pan-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
That was the kind of explanation that I was looking for. I was sure that I had missed something. thanks.
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