Control: close -1
Hi,
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 09:37:09 +0100 Jordi Mallach <[email protected]> wrote:
> severity 635857 normal
> thanks
>
> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 02:16:41AM -0400, Jason A. Spiro wrote:
> > tinyproxy 1.6.3-2 from Debian 5 "lenny" worked fine. I just upgraded
> > to Debian 6 "squeeze" and the new tinyproxy 1.8.2-1squeeze1. Now
> > tinyproxy fails to start with a series of error messages including
> > "tinyproxy: Could not open file /var/log/tinyproxy.log: Permission
> > denied". Downgrading to 1.6.3-2 makes the problem go away.
>
> When you upgraded from 1.6.x, you must have got a dpkg conffile upgrade
> prompt, and you probably refused to merge your configuration changes to
> the new configuration proposal.
>
> This left you with a configuration referencing /var/run/tinyproxy.pid and
> /var/log/tinyproxy.log for PidFile and LogFile. This, mixed to tinyproxy
> now dropping privileges much earlier in the startup sequence (a good
> thing), caused your problem.
>
> Compare your /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf with
> /etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy.conf.dpkg-new to see this and other differences.
>
The above obviously was a misconfigure system issue after upgrade.
Merging of conffiles is a basic must when upgrading.
Thus, closing.
Mike
