Package: hal Version: 0.4.7-3sarge1 Severity: normal
README.Debian for package hal implies that to get fstab-sync rewriting /etc/fstab it is enough to remove the '--drop-privileges' option from the value of DAEMON_OPTS in /etc/default/hal. This is not enough. Consulting the fstab-sync man page, and reversing the instructions in the 'DISABLING FSTAB-SYNC', I think a symlink is missing: root# ln -s /usr/sbin/fstab-sync /etc/hal/device.d/50-fstab-sync.hal root# That's the end of this bug report, but I have a suggestion which worked very well for me, which you might like to adopt: fstab-sync can be made runnable *with* the '--drop-privileges' option by running: root# chgrp hal /usr/sbin/fstab-sync root# chmod 4750 /usr/sbin/fstab-sync root# If you need more info, please let me know! Alexis -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.8.myth20050727 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus-1 0.23.4-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii dbus-glib-1 0.23.4-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libcap1 1:1.10-14 support for getting/setting POSIX. ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage0 0.4.7-3sarge1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal0 0.4.7-3sarge1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters ii pciutils 1:2.1.11-15 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.056-3 /dev/ management daemon ii usbutils 0.70-8 USB console utilities hal recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]