Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> YES, I know that the postinst doesn't work if you don't have any user
>> crontabs, feel free to stop reporting the bug -- I have enough.
>> You can get the installation to complete by editing
>> /var/lib/dpkg/info/cron.postinst and removing these three lines near the end:
>> for ct in * ; do
>> chown $ct:crontab $ct
>> done
> This also won't work with too many users.
No, it will.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/big> rm *
bash: /bin/rm: Argument list too long
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/big> for ct in *; do rm $ct ; done \
&& echo success
success
> And lets add a user with homedir "`rm -rf ..`" just for fun.
Would not hurt.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/big> bar="\`yes\`"
echo $bar
`yes`
(If you want to see the kernels oom killer in action try "eval $bar",
I just did. - "Sep 3 10:13:16 downhill kernel: Out of Memory: Killed
process 788 (bash) ;-)."
cu andreas
