Re: /var mounted noexec

[Richard Kettlewell <richardk@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Nathan E Norman writes:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote:

>> can anyone tell me where does dpkg store its preinstall and
>> postinstall scripts when installing packages ?
> 
> /var/lib/dpkg/info iirc

That is correct.  However dpkg is not necessarily the only program
which executes scripts from within /var.

atd, for example does the equivalent of ``/bin/sh <filename'' for
certain files in /var (which means noexec won't have any effect).

There may be others.

ttfn/rjk