Your message dated Mon, 5 Oct 1998 22:55:20 -0600 with message-id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and subject line believed fixed has caused the attached bug report to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what I'm talking about this indicates a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact me immediately.) Ian Jackson (administrator, Debian bugs database) Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 10 Dec 1997 10:28:25 +0000 Received: (qmail 9518 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1997 10:28:24 -0000 Received: from POP3.tu-dresden.de ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by 205.229.104.5 with SMTP; 10 Dec 1997 10:28:24 -0000 Received: from rmail.urz.tu-dresden.de (actually RKS4f.urz.tu-dresden.de) by rks3 with SMTP (PP); Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:35:34 +0100 Received: from physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (actually pbtrs3.phy.tu-dresden.de) by rmail with SMTP (PP); Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:33:33 +0100 Received: by physik.phy.tu-dresden.de (AIX 3.2/UCB 5.64/4.03) id AA20684; Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:36:14 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: dselect changes permission of status/available To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (debian bugs) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 11:36:13 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 563 Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.19 After entering menu choice 2 (aka Select) in dselect and leaving this point again (even without actually changing anything, ie. by pressing 'x') the permissions of both /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available} are changed according to the umask setting of root (because I call dselect as root). This is a Bad Thing, because when you use umask 077 (as I do) these files are not readable by any ordinary user. So you cannot execute dpkg --status or dpkg --list without beeing root! Greetings, Ulf -- #include <signature>