Your message dated Sun, 3 May 2020 22:51:43 +0200 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Documentation and message updates has caused the Debian Bug report #324852, regarding util-linux: mkswap manpage should suggest appropriate permissions for swapfiles to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: util-linux Version: 2.12p-7 Severity: normal Hi, in the mkswap manpage one reads: To setup a swap file, it is necessary to create that file before initializing it with mkswap, e.g. using a command like # dd if=/dev/zero of=swapfile bs=1024 count=65536 With Debian's default umask this creates a file with the following permissions: -rw-r--r-- whereas appropriate permissions are: -rw------- Therefore I suggest to add the following command after dd: # chmod go-rwx swapfile (This report is related to bug #196857, which will probably not be fixed soon.) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (100, 'unstable'), (99, 'experimental'), (98, 'breezy') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686 Locale: LANG=fr_FR@euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages util-linux depends on: ii libc6 2.3.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.4-9 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libslang2 2.0.4-4 The S-Lang programming library - r ii libuuid1 1.38-2 universally unique id library ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-3 compression library - runtime util-linux recommends no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Hi, thank you for your reports. Please send documentation and message improvements upstream, as tracking this in Debian is a good way of them never arriving :-) See https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues Karel and team tend to react well to properly formatted patches that are useful to all distributions. Stay safe, Chris
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