Hello Bob, hello list! On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:21:00PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > [...] > dpkg (subprocess): unable to execute post-removal script: Permission denied > dpkg: error processing gtkhtml3.2 (--remove): > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2 > [...] > /dev/hda10 /tmp ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 "Be careful if setting /tmp noexec when you want to install new software, since some programs might use it for installation. Apt is one such program (see http://bugs.debian.org/116448) if not configured properly APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir (see apt-extracttemplates(1)). You can set this variable in /etc/apt/apt.conf to another directory with exec privileges other than /tmp." > /dev/hda8 /var ext3 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 "(dpkg's) installation (post,pre) and removal (post,pre) scripts are at /var/lib/dpkg/", so better don't mount it noexec. See <http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s4.9> for reference. BTW, the ld-linux trick to circumvent noexec won't work anymore with recent kernels. HTH, Flo
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