Regression from bug 517773, which was not completely implemented. rsyslog needs to check if it can read from /proc/kmsg as non-root, and not drop privileges if not. In other works, seteuid(), read() -> on fail, seteuid(0) and keep it that way, on success -> setuid() -> permanently drop privs.
** Summary changed: - 20100218 EC2 image (ami-0512fe6c): Cannot read proc file system: 1 - Operation not permitted. + rsyslogd spins CPU on older kernels -- rsyslogd spins CPU on older kernels https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/523610 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
