[Slackbuilds-users] leafnode: nasty side-effect on /var

[Robby Workman]

On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:41:30 +1100
Grant <g_r_a_n_t_ at bugsplatter.id.au> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:07:43 +1100, you wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 09:14:50AM +1100, Grant wrote:
> >
> >> The leafnode-2 slackbuild killed my system!  Panic!
> >
> >No more so than the idea that my script might have killed someone's
> >system :-).
> > 
> >> Actually the bugger did a permissions o-rx on /var, killing itself
> >> and web server and...
> >
> >Just to be sure I ran the script again and I cannot duplicate your
> >findings. On my own system:
> >
> >drwxr-xr-x  17 root root  4096 2008-10-18 10:43 var
> 
> Well, I just built the package again, and:
> 
> root at deltree:/opt/src/xxx/leafnode# tar xzf
> leafnode-2.0.0.alpha20080904a-i486-1_SBo.tgz
> root at deltree:/opt/src/xxx/leafnode# ls -l total 456
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root     72 2008-10-19 03:27 etc/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    112 2008-10-19 03:27 install/
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 466579 2008-10-19 03:27
> leafnode-2.0.0.alpha20080904a-i486-1_SBo.tgz drwxr-xr-x 6 root
> root    144 2008-10-19 03:27 usr/ drwxrwx--- 3 root root     72
> 2008-10-19 03:27 var/
> 
> Guess I'll install from source.  Did I mention somewhere this is on 
> slack-11.0?  Sorry if I forgot that.
> 
> Suspect:  '--localstatedir=/var \' on line 68??  I haven't checked
> the source.


FWIW, I can't reproduce this either.  It almost surely can't be the
build script doing -- did the same thing happen with a manual build
from source?

-RW