Re: suid problem

1996-12-12 Thread Guy Maor
Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Oh dear. I have just installed a complete Debian system for a new recruit > who is now 4 hours away by jet. Is there any automated way of finding > missing bits? Yes - track updates to 1.2 as they are released, 1.2.1, 1.2.2, etc. > Or what is my best

Re: suid problem

1996-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l XF86_S3 > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2025716 Nov 22 15:18 XF86_S3 > > Now X won't run, of course. > > Why not? > In debian, /usr/X11R6/bin/X is not a link to the Xserver but its a wrapper >

Re: suid problem

1996-12-10 Thread Gergely Madarasz
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > > [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/X11R6/bin# ls -l XF86_S3 > -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 2025716 Nov 22 15:18 XF86_S3 > > [8:03pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/deb/x# dpkg -i xserver-s3_3.2-1.deb > (Reading database ... 22830 files and directo

Re: suid problem

1996-12-10 Thread Guy Maor
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various > binaries losing their suid bits. This is bug 5479 in dpkg. It contains a patch which you can use until a new version of dpkg fixes it. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-

Re: suid problem

1996-12-10 Thread Philippe Troin
On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:28:56 +1100 Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED] rmit.edu.au) wrote: > H. I just reinstalled smail and the suid bit was maintained. > However the X (S3 server) package seems to be missing the suid bit. > Could be a bug, but the vga16 server has the same. Anyway, > this is

Re: suid problem

1996-12-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
> > In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various > > binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail > > to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail > > telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid, > > as it should've been. A few p

Re: suid problem

1996-12-10 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
> In the past few weeks I've had a lot of problems with various > binaries losing their suid bits. For example, I upgraded smail > to the latest (package), and started getting errors from smail > telling me it couldn't write to the paniclog. It wasn't suid, > as it should've been. A few people have