On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:05:36AM +0100, Nils Jeppe wrote: > Hmmm it works now. Maybe I caught ping while netbase was being > upgraded? When the package is upgraded, does the setuid bit get erased for > that duration? /bin/ping is not setuid in the .deb, but instead chmodded / suidregistered in the postinst. So in between dpkg unpacking the new .deb, and the postinst finishing, ping will not be setuid. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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