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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.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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