Re: Strange diagnostic
> On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 09:54:38PM +0300, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote:
>> nikita@sercond:~> ls -l /usr/local/sbin/restart-after-upgrade
>> -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1044 ??? 11 2001
>> /usr/local/sbin/restart-after-upgrade*
>> nikita@sercond:~> which restart-after-upgrade
>> /usr/local/sbin/restart-after-upgrade
>> nikita@sercond:~> restart-after-upgrade
>> bash: /usr/local/sbin/restart-after-upgrade: /bin/bash: bad interpreter:
>> Permission denied
>>
>> Here 'restart-after-upgrade' is a shell script that happens to be
>> executable by root only (I know user can easily source it, I am writing
>> not about security but about diagnostic).
>>
>> So why "which" finds it? And why error message when a user attempts to
>> run it is so strange? Is that normal, or it should be filed as bug
>> reports?
>
> What version of debianutils? stable's which finds such executables, but
> unstable's which does not.
Hmm, debianutils seems to be from stable.
So no bug in current which?
And waht about the error message? "bash" is also from stable here. Is it
fixed in sid?
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