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. This means that the savelog that occurs could happen during a write from the acct tool leading to dataloss. One would be tempted to chmod u+x /etc/init.d/acct but it would be nice to add '/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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