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Re: xaw-wrappers



Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> Is your /usr/X11R6/bin/xload a symlink to /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers/wrapper ?

Yes.

> I tried to reproduce this, and I can't -- I get another set of errors:
> 
> joey@kite:~>xload
> ldd: can't open /usr/X11R6/bin/xload.real (Permission denied)
> xaw-wrappers: unable to determine libc version of /usr/X11R6/bin/xload.real.

Hmmm.  This is the error I get now too...

> 
> What version of xaw-wrappers are you using?

0.19

Drat.  Actually, I think it must have been 0.18 when I wrote that
email.  I upgraded xaw-wrappers around lunchtime today.

> This begs the question -- why on earth is xload suid on a debian system? It
> doesn't need to be! I think you can just remove the suid bit from xload and
> then it will work ok with xaw-wrappers.

That's a good question.  I haven't done this.  This is basically a
vanilla Debian system.  I haven't touched the permissions on any file as
of yet.  8(

In fact:

griffon:~> ls -l /usr/bin/X11/xload*
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           29 Mar  9 13:39
/usr/bin/X11/xload -> /usr/lib/xaw-wrappers/wrapper
-rws--x--x   1 root     root         8656 Jan 12 01:55
/usr/bin/X11/xload.real
griffon:~> 

Why is xload.real mode set to 4711?

Weird.

Behan

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