still no su - on that machine f7 -> rawhide

Michal Jaegermann michal at harddata.com
Thu Apr 10 23:49:27 UTC 2008


On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 04:23:27PM -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# ls /bin/su -l
> -rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 35356 2008-04-07 15:25 /bin/su
> [root at localhost ~]# 
> 
> The "/bin/su" is in red, maybe it is not really there?

"/bin/su" is in red because it is "setuid executable".  See that
's' in '-rws...'?

>  How should I fix it for good?

It appears to be fixed, whatever that may mean.

> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa coreutils
> coreutils-6.10-18.fc9.i386
> [root at localhost ~]# 
> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa coreutils
> coreutils-6.10-18.fc9.i386
> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -qa coreutils*

That should be 

    rpm -qa "coreutils*"

or, if you are running from a directory with 'coreutils<something>'
in it then shell will expand it and you are asking not what you
think you are asking.

> [root at localhost ~]# rpm -V coreutils*
> package coreutils-6.10-18.fc9.i386.rpm is not installed

That is absolutely correct.  Such package is not installed.
You have installed 'coreutils' or, if you want to be very
specific, 'coreutils-6.10-18.fc9.i386'.  You also did not
install a package with a 'coreutils*' name although

    rpm -Va 'coreutils*'
or
    rpm -Va "coreutils*"

would work albeit slower (it has more work to do).


   Michal




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