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From: Francesco Talamona <ti.liame@×××××.it>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem
Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 22:28:06
Message-Id: 200601072324.15125.ti.liame@email.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Bizarre etc/cfg-update problem by Holly Bostick
1 On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:54, Holly Bostick wrote:
2 > /usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/
3
4 > What might that be.....? Does something need to be re-initialized?
5 > Some cache updated? I'm getting a bit confused here.
6
7 Look at the following command sequence (as my user):
8
9 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~]$ echo $CONFIG_PROTECT
10 /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config
11 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~]$ mkdir temp
12 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~]$ cd temp
13 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~/temp]$ touch pippo
14 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~/temp]$ touch ._cfg0000_pippo
15 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~/temp]$ export CONFIG_PROTECT="$CONFIG_PROTECT
16 `pwd`"
17 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~/temp]$ /usr/sbin/etc-update
18 Scanning Configuration files...
19 find: /etc/cups/certs: Permission denied
20 find: /etc/lvm/archive: Permission denied
21 find: /etc/lvm/backup: Permission denied
22 find: /etc/tomcat-5: Permission denied
23 Automerging trivial changes in: pippo
24 Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :)
25
26 As you can see, any directory can be added to CONFIG_PROTECT, and
27 scanned with etc-update (see: "automerging trivial changes in:
28 pippo"?).
29 And now:
30
31 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~/temp]$ ll -a
32 total 16
33 drwxr-xr-x 2 sko sko 4096 Jan 7 23:14 .
34 drwxr-xr-x 168 sko sko 12288 Jan 7 23:13 ..
35 -rw-r--r-- 1 sko sko 0 Jan 7 23:13 pippo
36 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~/temp]$ touch ._cfg0000_pippo
37 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~/temp]$ export
38 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="$CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK `pwd`"
39 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~/temp]$ /usr/sbin/etc-update
40 Scanning Configuration files...
41 find: /etc/cups/certs: Permission denied
42 find: /etc/lvm/archive: Permission denied
43 find: /etc/lvm/backup: Permission denied
44 find: /etc/tomcat-5: Permission denied
45 Exiting: Nothing left to do; exiting. :)
46 [23:13] [sko@aemaeth:~/temp]$
47
48 The directory ~/temp is listed both in CONFIG_PROTECT and
49 CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, so nothing is done...
50
51 Is perhaps "/usr/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/" listed in CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK?
52
53 Ciao
54 Francesco
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