openSUSE Recommended Update: syslogd: fix warning on lograte directory ownership ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-RU-2012:0442-1 Rating: important References: #678434 #750263 Affected Products: openSUSE 12.1 openSUSE 11.4 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that has two recommended fixes can now be installed. Description: Adding 'su' option to syslogd lograte configuration to fix the following error message: "/var/log/news" has insecure permissions. It must be owned and be writable by root only to avoid security issues. Patch Instructions: To install this openSUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update. Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product: - openSUSE 12.1: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-188 - openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2012-188 To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch". Package List: - openSUSE 12.1 (i586 x86_64): klogd-1.4.1-750.755.1 klogd-debuginfo-1.4.1-750.755.1 syslogd-1.4.1-750.755.1 syslogd-debuginfo-1.4.1-750.755.1 syslogd-debugsource-1.4.1-750.755.1 - openSUSE 12.1 (noarch): syslog-service-1.4.1-750.755.1 - openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64): klogd-1.4.1-735.1 klogd-debuginfo-1.4.1-735.1 syslogd-1.4.1-735.1 syslogd-debuginfo-1.4.1-735.1 syslogd-debugsource-1.4.1-735.1 References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/678434 https://bugzilla.novell.com/750263