On Thu, Aug 10, 2006, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 10, 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> I just ran into a problem this morning when a customer noted that the mysql
>> common.log and update.log files were growing out of control. After doing
>> some checking, I figured out that the main problem is that the %restart
>> section of the %{l_prefix}/etc/rc.d/rc.mysql run control file needs to run
>> as root, not as the restricted user.
>>
>> Running %restart as the restricted user won't allow it to do the necessary
>> ``stop start'' as it requires root priviledges to run the %stop section.
>>
>> Unless I'm mistaken, any %restart section must run at the higher
>> priviledges of the %start and %start sections.
>
>Yes, you're right, Bill. We really need that the %restart section is run
>as the super-user because once the run-command process has downgraded
>its privileges, it cannot upggrade it again.
>
>This bug was introduced by me when I upgraded from MySQL 4 to 5. I
>cannot remember why I thought that the restricted user privileges are
>sufficient there.
Ralf:
I think it goes back farther than that. While looking at some of our older
installations that are running as far back as Release 2.0 I see the same
thing in the mysql-4.0.21-2.2.0.src.rpm package. It looks like it may have
been the MySQL 3 -> 4 where this was introduced.
In any case, thanks for fixing it.
I figure that others who may be running older versions of the OpenPKG
system may want to be aware of this, and make the appropriate changes in
their local packages.
Bill
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