> > 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 told me in mail that > > this is a Linux 2.1 bug. > > I don't think so. I suspect this is a bug in the version of dpkg > you're using. Please check if the setuid bit is set in the '.deb' > file: dpkg-deb --contents smail*deb; if it is, and it is not > present after "dpkg -i smail*deb", it is definitively a problem > with your dpkg version.
Hmmmm. 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 wandering off the topic. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]