Bug#234788: Major data loss because of .xsession-errors

2004-03-01 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:23:46PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: When I tried it as root, X worked, but the /dev/null became 0600. So it seems it wants to chmod 0600 .xsession-errors. That would probably be a security hole (at least a DOS: make ld.so 600 and the

Bug#234788: Major data loss because of .xsession-errors

2004-03-01 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 10:27:32AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:23:46PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: When I tried it as root, X worked, but the /dev/null became 0600. So it seems it wants to chmod 0600 .xsession-errors. That would

Bug#234788: Major data loss because of .xsession-errors

2004-02-29 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:23:46PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: When I tried it as root, X worked, but the /dev/null became 0600. So it seems it wants to chmod 0600 .xsession-errors. That would probably be a security hole (at least a DOS: make ld.so 600 and the

Bug#234788: Major data loss because of .xsession-errors

2004-02-29 Thread Mike Mestnik
root could setup /dev/xsession-errors or even ~/.xsession-errors to be an acctual null dev with a cp -a and a chown. --- Tomasz Wegrzanowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 05:23:46PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: When I tried it as root, X worked, but

Bug#234788: Major data loss because of .xsession-errors

2004-02-28 Thread Branden Robinson
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 02:01:57PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:44:37PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: .xsession-error's design is simple. It is a Unix file to which the Unix standard output and standard error streams get redirected. I am probably not

Bug#234788: Major data loss because of .xsession-errors

2004-02-26 Thread Branden Robinson
severity 234788 wishlist retitle 234788 xfree86: change design of Unix I/O stream handling tag 234788 + wontfix thanks On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 09:00:12PM +0100, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0-2 Severity: critical Today .xsession-errors grew over 1.5

Processed: Re: Bug#234788: Major data loss because of .xsession-errors

2004-02-26 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]: severity 234788 wishlist Bug#234788: Major data loss because of .xsession-errors Severity set to `wishlist'. retitle 234788 xfree86: change design of Unix I/O stream handling Bug#234788: Major data loss because of .xsession-errors Changed Bug title

Bug#234788: Major data loss because of .xsession-errors

2004-02-25 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
Package: xserver-xfree86 Version: 4.3.0-2 Severity: critical Today .xsession-errors grew over 1.5 gigabyte, filling all free space on /home partition. Because of that, other programs couldn't save their data, and some very important data was lost. It's not the first time I lost data because of