Re: logrotate on FC3

[Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org>]

Kristina Clair wrote:
> On Apr 12, 2005 12:13 PM, Paul Howarth <paul city-fan org> wrote:
>
> > Kristina Clair wrote:
> >
> > > Just some more information:  I haven't modified any of the files in
> > > /etc/logrotate.d or the logrotate.conf file.  Also, I ran logrotate -d
> > > /etc/logrotate.conf -- no errors reported.
> > > The system is completely up-to-date.
> >
> > Do you have /tmp mounted with the noexec option?
> >
> > If so, you may be falling over:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=149270
> >
> > The logrotate package in rawhide fixes that.
>
>
>
> That's a good question:
> running "mount" just shows:
> /dev/sda3 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
>
> but /etc/fstab has:
> /dev/sda3              /tmp                    ext3    defaults,noexec,nosuid
>
> So does that mean that noexec is enabled even though mount isn't showing it?

I don't know. You could always test it by creating a script in /tmp and 
seeing if it runs:

$ echo echo Hello > /tmp/testscript
$ chmod +x /tmp/testscript
$ /tmp/testscript

If noexec is set, you'll get:
-bash: /tmp/testscript: Permission denied

If not, you'll get:
Hello

I'd change the fstab entry to this anyway:
/dev/sda3 /tmp ext3 noexec,nosuid 1 2

The "defaults" keyword is redundant if you're specifying other options.

Paul.