On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:27:28AM +0100, Ruediger Oertel wrote:

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Josef Wolf wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 05:02:03PM +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote:

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Thanks. The strace indeed reveals what's going on: the aaa_base postinstall scriptlet contains: touch root/.bash_history chmod 600 root/.bash_history

On your system, /root/.bash_history is a symlink pointing to /dev/null, thus 'chmod 600 root/.bash_history' changes the mode of /dev/null.

Ah, that explains why the attributes were changed. I have set this symlink by intent, BTW.

Thanks! I hope we agree that symlinking .bash_history to /dev/null should not be forbidden ;-) absolutely ;) I never really thought about that one, could really help in some cases. Fix for aaa_base already submitted to FACTORY.

Thanks! BTW: I wonder how the fix looks like, since I have the feeling that this is hard (impossible?) to fix without a race condition. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org