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Bug 33819

Summary: screen 4.0.1 does not set /var/run/screen to 755
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) <zhen>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: major CC: gentoo
Priority: High    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---

Description John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-19 05:56:15 UTC
after merging screen 4.0.1, screen -ls complains about /var/run/screen not being set with 755 
perms. screen works again after I set /var/run/screen to 755.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. merge screen 4.0.1
2. run 'screen -ls'
3.
Actual Results:  
screen: /var/run/screen must be set to 755 for screen to run

Expected Results:  
screen should have run

Portage 2.0.49-r15 (hardened-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r3, 2.4.22-grsec
-1.9.12)=======================================================
==========
System uname: 2.4.22-grsec-1.9.12 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/
3/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=pentium4 -funroll-loops"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache autoaddcvs sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/
distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync21.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 crypt zlib berkdb readline pam ssl -X -gtk -gnome -alsa -nls -perl -python -tcpd"
Comment 1 Neil Watson 2003-11-19 08:38:31 UTC
I can confirm this.  After changing /var/run/screen to 755 screen worked properly again.
Comment 2 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-11-19 10:24:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33672 ***