Not germane to the problem at hand, but kudos to you for not logging in
directly as root!
Virtually all of the "best practices" for UNIX/Linux security tell you
to disable direct root access, yet surprisingly it is one of the most
common security HOLES I see when I audit systems. By requiring users to
log in as themselves, THEN up their privileges to root, you are
effectively requiring a double-password to gain root-level access.
Now... if you're truly a root user, please look for the following
potential problems:
- what are the permissions on /, /var, /var/tmp, and lastly,
/var/tmp/daemontools-0.76-show_flags
o what we're looking here are:
- x (execute) permissions for all the dirs & the file itself
- w (write) permission on /var/tmp
- t (sticky) permission on /var/tmp
o MY values are / = 0711, /var = 0711, /var/tmp = 1773
- what is your PATH variable set to?
o it should include
/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin and all of the
sbin variants of those.
- NOTE: on some systems, /opt either doesn't exist or is a
symbolic link to /usr/local, so adjust accordingly.
o MY value is
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/kerberos/sbin:/opt/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
Looking forward to your response....
Dan
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German Molano & Asociados wrote:
Yes i do, i am as a root, but first I logged as a unprivileged user
then switch as a root account with su - command.
And sh links to bash
# ls -alh /bin/sh
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 1 12:34 /bin/sh -> bash
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Jake Vickers <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*To:* qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com
<mailto:qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com>
*Sent:* Monday, October 27, 2008 1:23 PM
*Subject:* Re: [qmailtoaster] Failed build on RedHat Enterprise
German Molano & Asociados wrote:
Hi there, i am trying to build the qmailtoaster packages
on RedHat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 on a x86_64 server,
i am getting this error on the building process:
+ chmod u+x /var/tmp/daemontools-0.76-show_flags
+ /var/tmp/daemontools-0.76-show_flags
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.28671: /var/tmp/daemontools-0.76-show_flags:
/bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.28671 (%prep)
RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.28671 (%prep)
I am logged as root and i run
/var/tmp/daemontools-0.76-show_flags and it fails:
-bash: /var/tmp/daemontools-0.76-show_flags: /bin/sh: bad
interpreter: Permission denied
What's wrong ?
Thanks for your help
Are you running as root?
What does /bin/sh link to?
