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Re: Brother DCP-1510 driver install script empties /opt



On Sat, 22 Nov 2014 10:15:52 +1300, C.T.F. Jansen wrote:
Greetings,

Set up a Brother DCP-1510 laser printer and went to the Brother website
for the  drivers and install script for Debian systems. Downloaded the
drivers and install script then ran the install script.

It seemed to work without significant errors and completed with no error
messages and the correct test page was printed from cups. Have Debian 7
using gnome classic.

Later use showed that the previous contents of /opt had disappeared and
there was only a brother directory in it. It did have firefox and
thunderbird in it. These were duly restored.

Haven't noticed anything else broken, yet.

The Brother driver install script has a serious bug and should not be
used unmodified.
This is a major black mark for Brother, something for them to correct
forthwith.

Cheers

frank.jansen@actrix.gen.nz, ZL2TTS


Reminds me of the Huawei 3G modem installer for Linux. It replaced my .bash_profile with theirs, run `chmod -R 777` on everything under $INSTALLPATH (which I had chosen to be /usr/bin) to make sure their binary would work, and edited /etc/sudoers giving global root access without password to all users! I noticed there was something wrong when sudo stopped asking for my password...

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Teresa e Junior


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