Bug#451768: Approx doesnt collect garbage with libpam-tmpdir installed

2007-11-18 Thread Eric Cooper
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 12:21:21PM +0100, Emjay wrote: > SUGGESTION > > - fixing bug 343105 probably caused this > - using > > su -s /bin/sh approx -c "/usr/sbin/gc_approx --quiet" Thanks for finding this problem. The gc_approx command and the approx server both use setgid & setuid to "drop pr

Bug#451768: Approx doesnt collect garbage with libpam-tmpdir installed

2007-11-18 Thread Emjay
Package: approx Version: 2.8.0 Severity: normal /etc/cron.weekly/approx exits prematurely with the following error when libpam-tmpdir is installed and setup. "/tmp/user/0/approx982b38: Permission denied" PROBLEMS 1) gc_approx is initially run as root and does setuid32 to user approx 2) strace