[plug] mandrake 9.4 startup

[William Kenworthy]

It may be lot more complicated.  Mandrake runs something called msec
which runs periodicaly and housekeeps security - monitors and changes
permissions on some system files amongst other things.  There are also
"levels" of security ranging from "invitation to hack" through to "I may
as well power it off as its unusable".  From the gui tools you can
change the level of security and msec will trawl through the system
reconfiguring it to suit.  As you can imagine, it can go horribly wrong,
and often did back in the 8.n days.

So, have you set the security level too high, or manually changed
something critical?

>From bitter experience, Mandrake breaks very easily if you ignore the
built in tools and start modifying files ala debian/redhat etc.  Its
just not designed for and get it go type fix-it.  

BillK

On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 20:11, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <20040219115608.8D7418C59 at spark.plug.linux.org.au>
> on Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:56:57PM +0800, filpee wrote:
> > Ah
> > I think you've hit it
> > They are both setup as rwxr--r--
> > Now I'm pretty new at this but from memory this means full access to owner
> > But only readable to everyone else
> 
> Yep.