Re: Debian Weekly News - January 4th, 2000
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 03:13:40AM -0900, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >Which date is on the borked floppies? I installed a system recently with the
> >xx-xx-2000 ones, and they worked perfectly... where is the permission
> >problem? (so I can fix it)
> it was 2.2.3 of the boot floppies, to see if you are affected check
> the permissions of anything with a symlink to it, they will be 777 if
> you got the buggy ones.
> find / -type f -perm +0002 -exec ls -ld {} \;
> if you get lots of results from that then you have been bitten...
Maybe someone from boot-floppies team could fire up some small script
which would take a fresh (2.2.4 ?) base tarball and extract only what's
to repair the damage? I think that simply untarring the whole base
tarball from root on an already somewhat configured and running system
will break lots of things.
--
/\/\ike
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