On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, William T Wilson wrote:

 : On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Richard Kettlewell wrote:
 : 
 : > That is correct.  However dpkg is not necessarily the only program
 : > which executes scripts from within /var.
 : 
 : It seems to me that what we have here is a classic case of trying to fix
 : something which isn't broken.
 : 
 : Simply mount /var in the normal way and all will be solved.

Indeed.  I didn't really understand the point (I DO mount /var/tmp,
/tmp, and /home noexec on some servers ...)

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