On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 11:20:43AM -0800, Mark Garcia wrote:
> Package: acct
> Version: 6.3.5-39
> Severity: critical
> Tags: patch
> Justification: causes serious data loss
Did you mean that it prevents the creation of new data, because the
script doesn't run?
ii acct 6.3.5-39 The GNU Accounting utilities for
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 3443 2004-02-01 17:52:59 ./etc/init.d/acct
The file provided by the .deb is chmod a+x. Are you sure you haven't
manually changed the permissions?
> -- 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.
Why is it preferred?
Justin
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