[arch] Arch, uucp user/group, rxtx and /var/lock

[Dan McGee]

On 4/10/07, bardo <ilbardo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/10/07, Dale Blount <dale at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > UUCP is dead (and has been for years), so should the GID be.
>
> That's nice to hear. So what? Are you going to patch rxtx? Because
> it's not going to work otherwise. Or maybe create a "lock" group that
> provides that functionality and let it own /var/lock. The alternative
> is virtually killing any program that relies on FHS specs to work...

Whoa, a little aggressive here? Anyway, feel free to look into this
issue as you are the largest stakeholder. I'd recommend looking into
what permissions other distros put on this directory. Clearly rxtx is
not the real problem here.

>From a Red Hat box I can look at:
drwxrwxr-x   7 root    lock    4096 Apr 10 04:02 lock
And dreamhost:
drwxrwxrwt   2 root root  4.0K 2007-04-10 06:26 lock

-Dan