Stephen Boddy wrote:
On Wednesday 11 October 2006 05:11, Basil Chupin wrote:
Several days ago smart was upgraded to .42-14 and I noticed that the ksmarttray now does not update the channels on bootup nor at the regular intervals while the system was running as in the past. I have to manually use the package manager to update the channels (and in most cases I find that there are upgrades waiting to be performed).
Anyone else having the same experience?
I asked in the smart mail list if something had changed in smart but was told (by Pascal Bleser) that nothing had changed. Nevertheless smart (ksmarttray that is) is not behaving as it did in the past so something has changed somewhere.
Hi Basil,
Hate to ask the obvious, but I believe you ended up configuring things as I do, so did you ensure smart-update is setuid after the upgrade? If the smart package is updated a fresh version of this binary is installed without setuid, which causes those symptoms. You need the line: /usr/bin/smart-update root.root 4755 in /etc/permissions.local, but whenever you see smart updated (should be done everytime you do an update of anything really) you need to run SuSEconfig as root. This will set the setuid flag on the file, and ksmarttray will do the right thing again.
Regards
BINGO! All in place as set up some time ago - but forgot to run SuSEconfig! Thanks, Stephen, ksmarttray now working correctly again :-) . Cheers. -- "Every burned book enlightens the world." Ralph Waldo Emerson