From 9119d5050fb5a6a406786ed2aafbfd0623ee140d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kern Sibbald Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:50:28 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] Improve documentation of sysconfdir --- docs/manuals/en/main/install.tex | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/manuals/en/main/install.tex b/docs/manuals/en/main/install.tex index 65ece443..babc4dcb 100644 --- a/docs/manuals/en/main/install.tex +++ b/docs/manuals/en/main/install.tex @@ -707,6 +707,19 @@ customize your installation. this directory should be unique to Bacula and not read/writable by any other user/group than Bacula is running under. + Please note that Bacula attempts to make the configuration directory + secure by doing an: +\smallskip + chmod 770 \lt{}sysconfdir\gt{} +\smallskip + So, if you make sysconfdir point to a global directory such as + /usr/local/etc, the modes for that directory will be restricted, and + this may affect other programs that are installed there. We strongly + recommend that you set {\bf sysconfdir} to {\bf /opt/bacula/etc} so + that the directory for all Bacula configuration files is unique to + Bacula and used only by Bacula. + + \item [ {-}{\-}mandir=\lt{}path\gt{}] \index[general]{{-}{\-}mandir} Note, as of Bacula version 1.39.14, the meaning of any path -- 2.39.5