still no su - on that machine f7 -> rawhide

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 11 00:32:30 UTC 2008


--- Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:

> 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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[olivares at localhost ~]$ echo $(date +%Y%m%d~%H:%M:%S)
20080410~19:30:24
[olivares at localhost ~]$ rpm -qa "coreutils*"
coreutils-6.10-18.fc9.i386
[olivares at localhost ~]$ rpm -Va 'coreutils*'
missing     /bin/su (Permission denied)
[olivares at localhost ~]$ rpm -Va "coreutils*"
missing     /bin/su (Permission denied)
[olivares at localhost ~]$ 


Thanks,

Antonio 

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