On 2012-01-12 16:17 +0100, Tomas Volka wrote: > On Čt 12-01-12 | 09:21, Frank McCormick wrote: >> Noticed today in the middle of bootup messages that swapon is >> complaining about permissions set to 1660 and were insecure. It >> suggested (as I recall) 0660. I never saw this before. >> How do I go about changing them ? > > This bug was already reported here: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196857 > > You can get rid of that annoying message by issuing following as root: > chmod 0600 /sbin/swapon
You mixed up something here, that should be the permission of *swap files*, not of the swapon utility. But it is true that this will get rid of the message, because no swap space is going to activated if /sbin/swapon is not executable by anyone. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874nw0vnty....@turtle.gmx.de
