Bug#524020: fails to find/read/use configuration file on read-only media

Package: noip2 Version: 2.1.7-11 Severity: important noip2 requires write-access to the configuration file for standard operation. This is a bit daft: wall:/home/madduck# ls -l /var/lib/noip2/noip2.conf -rw--- 1 root root 144 2009-04-14 09:38 /var/lib/noip2/noip2.conf wall:/home/madduck#

Bug#524020: fails to find/read/use configuration file on read-only media

martin f krafft wrote: noip2 requires write-access to the configuration file for standard operation. This is a bit daft: Your choice of wording is unnecessarily harsh, considering that the placement of the conf file is based on your own suggestion [1], and that /var/lib is a standard

Bug#524020: fails to find/read/use configuration file on read-only media

tags 524020 patch thanks also sprach Avi Rozen avi.ro...@gmail.com [2009.04.14.1351 +0200]: Your choice of wording is unnecessarily harsh All I can do is apologise: sorry... This seems unnecessary, but a patch would be welcome. --- noip2.orig 2009-04-14 14:32:15.0 +0200 +++ noip2

Bug#524020: fails to find/read/use configuration file on read-only media

All I can do is apologise: sorry... No problem. This ain't the greatest piece of software on this planet... [patch] I've pushed a modified fix [1], so that both do_start and do_strace work like this. Thanks, Avi. [1]