Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-8 Severity: normal
Upgrading from Etch to Lenny, this server failed to install a current 2.6 kernel but retained 2.6.8. When I corrected this error and rebooted, I discovered that the latest files in /var/log/ntpstats were now owned by root not ntp. I assume that the switch to user (-u), failed (presumably as the relevant features are not present in the old kernel). Fix is trivial (chown or remove the relevant files). However if I've understood this correctly I thought it might be worth ensuring that the package installs only with supporting kernels, or perhaps more importantly that ntp check that any drop of root privilege works correctly before writing to disk. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages ntp depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libedit2 2.11~20080614-1 BSD editline and history libraries ii libncurses5 5.7+20081213-1 shared libraries for terminal hand ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8g-15 SSL shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.2-20 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii netbase 4.34 Basic TCP/IP networking system Versions of packages ntp recommends: ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction Versions of packages ntp suggests: ii ntp-doc 1:4.2.4p4+dfsg-8 Network Time Protocol documentatio -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
