Strace shows firestarter escaping the configured system log path: access("\"/var/log/kern.log\"", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) access("/var/log/messages", F_OK) = 0
This happens regardless of the presence of single of double quotes enclosing the path, or whether the path is set with 'gconftool-2' or 'gconf-editor'. The file certainly exists and is readable by the user, which is a member of 'adm' group: ls -l /var/log/kern.log 64 -rw-r----- 1 root adm 57695 2009-06-27 13:31 /var/log/kern.log -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org