[Bug 1945202] [NEW] Tar changes folder ownership when run under root

2021-09-27 Thread Zsolt Ero
Public bug reported: I got locked out of my server via SSH, simply by extracting a tar file. No matter how crazy it sounds, it is reproducible. 1. login as root 2. wget https://github.com/aristocratos/btop/releases/download/v1.0.9/btop-1.0.9-linux-x86_64.tbz` 3. tar -xjvf btop-1.0.9-linux-x86_64

[Bug 50093] Re: Some sysctls are ignored on boot

2019-02-14 Thread Zsolt Ero
I feel it's important to add that the very last comment (Stanley Sisneros (stanley-sisneros) wrote on 2018-05-30) is wrong, and the right workaround is by Tomasz Konefal (twkonefal-j) wrote on 2018-05-07. That is, add this to crontab: @reboot root sleep 5 && sysctl --system -- You received this

[Bug 50093] Re: Some sysctls are ignored on boot

2019-02-14 Thread Zsolt Ero
Actually, the line which works without specifying a PATH in a cron.d file is the following: @reboot root /bin/sleep 5 && /sbin/sysctl --system -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/50093 Titl

[Bug 1645002] [NEW] ssh sessions are not cleanly terminated on shutdown/restart with systemd

2016-11-26 Thread Zsolt Ero
Public bug reported: In Ubuntu 16.04, a "reboot" command does not terminate the ssh session. This results in clients hanging, until timing out (sometimes as much as 120 seconds). This also introduces bugs to all orchestration / automation tools which work over SSH, since they cannot issue their

[Bug 1644996] [NEW] logrotate config uses syslog group

2016-11-26 Thread Zsolt Ero
Public bug reported: The default logrotate config uses the "syslog" group. > # use the syslog group by default, since this is the owning group > # of /var/log/syslog. > su root syslog This is not correct anymore since 16.04, because: 1. "syslog" group doesn't exist on a stock Ubuntu 16.04 syste