[Mimedefang] Smoking Crack???

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

I have one guess, what about the Msec tools?  Is this a Linux Mandrake 
server?  You never did specify the platform that this was running on.

BTW, Smoking Crack is not advisable, it's bad for your health and mental 
stability.

Link, Pete wrote:

>Hey guys,
>
>I modified mimedefang to change the default file and directory permissions
>as can be seen below.  All new dirs are created with 755 and files inside
>the dirs with 644.
>
>The files modified that accomplished this were:
>mimedefang.c, mimedefang-multiplexor.c as well as
>/usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl
>
>After approximately 1/2 hr the permissions change back and new dirs are
>created with 700 and files inside the dirs with 600.
>
>I am currently investigating why this is going on.
>
>Any clues???
>
>drwxr-xr-x    2 defang   defang       4096 May  9 13:01
>qdir-2003-05-09-13.01.00-001
>drwxr-xr-x    2 defang   defang       4096 May  9 13:03
>qdir-2003-05-09-13.03.00-001
>drwxr-xr-x    2 defang   defang       4096 May  9 13:04
>qdir-2003-05-09-13.04.14-001
>drwx------    2 defang   defang       4096 May  9 13:30
>qdir-2003-05-09-13.30.36-001
>drwx------    2 defang   defang       4096 May  9 13:30
>qdir-2003-05-09-13.30.36-002
>
>[root at u235 MIMEDefang]# cd qdir-2003-05-09-13.30.36-002
>[root at u235 qdir-2003-05-09-13.30.36-002]# ll
>total 24
>-rw-r--r--    1 defang   defang       4277 May  9 13:30 ENTIRE_MESSAGE
>-rw-------    1 defang   defang       1470 May  9 13:30 HEADERS
>-rw-------    1 defang   defang         17 May  9 13:30 RECIPIENTS
>-rw-------    1 defang   defang         32 May  9 13:30 SENDER
>-rw-------    1 defang   defang         15 May  9 13:30 SENDMAIL-QID
>[root at u235 qdir-2003-05-09-13.30.36-002]#
>
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