Your message dated Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:38:53 +0200 (CEST)
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and subject line Re: Bug#535114: base-files: /dev/null left with incorrect
permissions on package configure
has caused the Debian Bug report #535114,
regarding base-files: /dev/null left with incorrect permissions on package
configure
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Package: base-files
Version: 5lenny3
Severity: normal
I'm trying to track down a nasty problem which I encounter from
to time on some of my Lenny machines. Sometimes, when I applied
updates via apt or cron-apt, I noticed afterwards, that the
permissions on /dev/null suddenly set to 644 instead of 666.
So far I was now able to reproduce this behaviour when I invoke
dpkg-reconfigure on the base-files package.
u...@srv-mfm-vm01:~$ ls -l /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2009-06-09 10:40 /dev/null
u...@srv-mfm-vm01:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure base-files
u...@srv-mfm-vm01:~$ ls -l /dev/null
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 1, 3 2009-06-09 10:40 /dev/null
So does this come from the base-files package itself?
Regards,
Andreas
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.2
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii base-passwd 3.5.20 Debian base system master password
ii mawk [awk] 1.3.3-11.1 a pattern scanning and text proces
base-files recommends no packages.
base-files suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Andreas Unterkircher wrote:
> > u...@srv-mfm-vm01:~$ ls -l /etc/adjtime
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-03-31 18:30 /etc/adjtime -> /dev/null
>
> It's a selfmade problem. Because we have some systems using a compact
> flash as disk where just the /var filesystem is a RAM-based fs, we
> wanted to avoid filesystem changes in /etc which get written on the CF
> all the time. And /etc/adjtime was one of those files.
>
> So someone configured an automatically created symlink during debian
> inst which I forgot about.
>
> I guess we can close this bug.
Thank you.
The base-files package in squeeze no longer fiddles with /etc/adjtime,
so even if we had something to fix in base-files regarding this, it
would be already fixed.
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