on Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:17:23AM -0900, Ethan Benson (erbenson@alaska.net) wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 11:47:31PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> > I'm getting a slew of these errors running apt-get upgrade on my Woody
> > system right now. The problem appears to be a missing file,
> > /var/lib/debconf/config.88153.
> >
> > ...Ok, I'm learning bits and pieces. This file is created during the
> > update process, right, 'coz on a retry, I'm getting config.114981 as the
> > missing file.
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> did you mount /var noexec? if so don't.
Damn, you're good:
$ mount | grep '/var '
/dev/sdb6 on /var type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
...I figured it was a security bonus -- no executables in variable
content filesystems. I'll have to rethink that one, clearly.
Thanks!
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