On Aug 23, Ben Armstrong <synrg@sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca> wrote: > So, a hotplug event could load and run code (which happen to be in conf > files, and therefore cannot be diverted) in the old hotplug package. > The problem you're facing, it seems, is that while code should be > divertable, conf files aren't, but hotplug doesn't separate these out, > so the usual mechanisms don't work. Am I on the right track? Yes. > Of course, init files are code and conf files, but they have a built-in > mechanism for preventing them from running, which is to look for the > binary the init file runs, and if it isn't there, don't do anything. It > seems you don't have any such protection built into the hotplug > conffiles-that-are-also-executables, or else you wouldn't be in this > mess. The init file does, but /etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug does not. -- ciao, Marco
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