
ANNOUNCING FIXPERMS VERSION 0.40!

This distribution comes with source and can be found on sunsite in
either /pub/Linux/Incoming/fixperms.*.z or (usually)
/pub/Linux/system/Admin/fixperms.*.z (where * is version number).

Thanks to everyone who has emailed help and suggestions!  Keep the
comments coming!

This latest version adds:
  checking for relative (rather than absolute) links, check 
  correct major/minor device numbers, parts written in C++

Fixperms allows a sysadmin to set permissions on a list of files.
Fixperms also allows the creation of these lists so the permissions can
be set at a later date.

Fixperms would be especially helpful if a fixperm file were included
with program distributions such as mail and lpr.  Various programs in
these distributions need specific sgid and suid permissions in order to
work correctly.  Upon installation of mail, for example, fixperms could
be run to properly set the owner, group, and permissions of each file in
the package.

Fixperms allows the programmer of a particular package to create the
permissions file to send with a distribution to ensure proper owner,
group, and permissions upon installation.

If you have any questions, or bug reports, send to:

Anthony Hall (aehall@seattleu.edu)

