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]

Reply via email to