Savvas Radevic - Thanks for suggesting a postinst check. However, I think checking for specific version numbers is too fragile - it might not have been the immediately preceding version that corrupted the conf file. I decided instead to check directly for a valid conf file (i.e. consisting only of comments, empty lines, and assignments of integers values to variables).
Alexey Pechnikov - Regarding the error > Can't exec "/tmp/adjtimex.config.78111": Permission denied which as you point out is bug # 566247 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=566247 i.e. a known side-effect of mounting /tmp "noexec" as recommended here: > http://www.debian-administration.org/article/Making_/tmp_non-executable I find there the warning > The only problem now is that when apt-get upgrades your system it will > sometimes place scripts inside the temp directory which will now not > be executable. but also the fix: > The fix for this is to temporarily make the temporary directory > executable before running apt-get and then remove the execution bits > afterwards. This would be a troublesome thing to remember doing > ourselves - but thankfully we can set it up to be automatic. > > > Add the following to the file /etc/apt/apt.conf: > > DPkg::Pre-Invoke{"mount -o remount,exec /tmp";}; > DPkg::Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount /tmp";}; > > This contains two lines, one running before any packing installation > and one afterwards. They merely execute the commands required to add > and remove the execute permissions on the /tmp ...so it appears somebody only partially implemented the "noexec" option. By the way, I think it's actually dpkg that runs the scripts. If a sysadmin runs dpkg directly rather than using apt-get, I wouldn't expect the suggested entries in /etc/apt/apt.conf to help. - Jim Van Zandt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
