Package: acct
Version: 6.3.5-39
Severity: critical
Tags: patch
Justification: causes serious data loss
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-1-686-smp
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US
Versions of packages acct depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.30.10 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
-- debconf information:
acct/kernel_mismatch: false
-- Description:
/etc/cron.daily/acct that is installed calls the /etc/init.d/acct {start|stop}.
This init.d script does not have execute permissions. One would be tempted to
chmod u+x /etc/init.d/acct but it
is preferred to execute /bin/sh /etc/init.d/acct instead. Hence, the simple
patch below:
==== BEGIN ====
--- acct.orig 2005-02-02 11:14:51.000000000 -0800
+++ acct 2005-02-02 11:15:12.000000000 -0800
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
then
cd /var/account
savelog -g adm -m 0640 -u root -c 7 /var/account/pacct >/dev/null
- /etc/init.d/acct stop >/dev/null
- /etc/init.d/acct start >/dev/null
+ /bin/sh /etc/init.d/acct stop >/dev/null
+ /bin/sh /etc/init.d/acct start >/dev/null
fi
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