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  • From: Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] /bin/true was missing on two systems
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 22:34:06 -0700

Now we know how great the testing stages we have developed are. I'll
setup test sorcery on an experiment box at work tomorrow. Perhaps, too,
Arwed will have figured out the last bits of the gcc split.

Seth

P.S. This was some debugging session over email.

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 07:44:28PM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> All right, test is now at 1.10.2-rc2, devel will auto-rebuild in an hour
> or so.
>
> This and the config_query fixes that went in a few days ago are both
> fairly critical and fairly small changes. So I'd like to slim down the
> test bake time a little from last round. But I'd also like to make sure
> that 1) consensus is okay with that and 2) we have several people test
> this on test sorcery other than myself.
>
> Since I've added /bin/true to protected, anyone with an infected init.d
> running test should be able to recast without problems (I tried and it
> worked). However I want more eyes than just my own looking at this and
> testing it before I commit another stable release. I don't want to have to
> re-release a day later if theres a problem that snuck in under my nose.
>
> -Andrew
>
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 07:25:00PM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> > I think whats happened is some tabs in parse_iw have been converted to
> > spaces:
> > OMIT_IN=" rename\| symlink\| unlink"
> > looks very similar to
> > OMIT_IN=" rename\| symlink\| unlink"
> > if your mail viewer treats tabs as 8 spaces.
> > however grep knows the difference
> > and when we have
> > 0 symlink /bin/true /etc/init.d/rc #success
> > true isn't getting properly excluded, and we list the /target/ of the
> > symlink
> > grep -v "$OMIT_IN" $IW_LOG | cut -f3 | grep -v "$OMIT"
> > doh!
> >
> > I'll point the finger so you dont have to...
> > Looking at the perforce changes it looks as if I munged the tabs
> > into spaces when I cut/paste that routine into libtrack. I'll fix it in
> > test/devel and add a comment nearby explaining why tabs are needed
> > so hopefully no one munges them unknowingly again...sorry for the
> > inconvenience.
> >
> > -Andrew
> >
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