In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid, as it should've been. A few people have told me in mail that this is a Linux 2.1 bug.
However I spoke to someone on the kernel mailing list, and he said that as far as he knew, it was a feature, and is in most unixes and to his knowledge even Linux 2.0. To my testing it is not in Linux 2.0, but it is in Solaris 5.5, for example. Is this a problem with regard to the debian package system? It bothers me that my binaries are losing their suid status quite often. As an example; [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l XF86_S3 -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2025716 Nov 22 15:18 XF86_S3 [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/deb/x# dpkg -i xserver-s3_3.2-1.deb (Reading database ... 22830 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xserver-s3 3.2-1 (using xserver-s3_3.2-1.deb) ... Unpacking replacement xserver-s3 ... Setting up xserver-s3 (3.2-1) ... [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l XF86_S3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2025716 Nov 22 15:18 XF86_S3 Now X won't run, of course. Hmmmm, maybe there's a different problem. The SUID bit has been lost on the above, and I'm running Linux 2.0.27 ... which doesn't fail my usual test for this behaviour. Any suggestions? hamish -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
