On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:01:42PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 08:27:01PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > Hello Kees, all, > > > > Kees Cook [2011-05-25 10:03 -0700]: > > > Yeah, the problem is that it's not a one-time question (see the bug > > > above), > > > so that each time we need privileges to gather data, apport will prompt > > > for > > > the sudo password _again_. :( > > > > One word: attach_root_command_outputs() :) > > > > Hooks can and should use this apport.hookutils function if they have > > several log files to attach. > > But the existing code for attach_dmesg() doesn't really fold into that very > well since it's reading the old /var/log/dmesg file, then running "dmesg" > itself, etc.
I guess the implication here is that if a script is already using attach_root_command_outputs() then if it wants dmesg it should include that file in that call, and forswear use of attach_dmesg(). Bryce -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
