Bug 437560

Summary:	runscript's checkpath non-obvious owner correction
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	OpenRC	Assignee:	OpenRC Team <openrc>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	robbat2
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	417391

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-10-08 01:11:33 UTC

This problem was found by Robin and took us a while to find what was going on. What happens is that when you use checkpath, and you don't pass _any_ --owner option, it assumes EUID/GUID pair is what you want to set it to, which in most cases is 0:0.

Now this would be okay _but_ in this case we have a problem as the old munin-node pid file was created in /var/run/munin — which has to be owned by munin:munin. But since munin-node is run as root, it has no -o option. So what happens is that /var/run/munin is changed to be owned by root:root.

Confusing? Quite a bit.

I'd suggest skipping over the whole owner check unless an explicit --owner is passed.

Comment 1 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2012-10-09 22:02:52 UTC

This has been fixed by commit 6f345ab.

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-10-09 23:08:29 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)

on a semi-related note, you should assign "true" and "false" to bool types, not "0" and "1".