[K12OSN] firestarter permission fail

[Gavin Chester]

On Sat, 2005-04-02 at 22:34 +0800, Gavin Chester wrote: 
> Displaying my ignorance of permissions problems here in trying to work
> out why firestarter won't (fire)start :-)
> 
> I noticed for the fist time since installing v4.2.0 a few weeks ago (as
> a dual-purpose server/workstation) that among the startup messages was
> the news that firestarter firewall was failing at bootup because of
> permissions.  What is the name of the log file that lists services
> started?  I wrongly thought it was dmesg and no other log file I checked
> shows the current boot (booted just 6hrs ago)
> 
> I took a look at the /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh file and found it was
> owned by root, group root.  I took the plunge and chown it to gavin,
> group root (see below) but that didn't seem to do the trick when I tried
> starting it from the CLI.  These transactions are listed below if anyone
> can give me pointers on where to tackle this issue.  I don't suppose I
> have firewall running since it fails on permissions, and I've become
> paranoid since repeated attempts at breakin recently via ssh (I've shut
> down sshd since I don't use it).     
> 
> 
> [root at local ~]# chown -v gavin /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh
> changed ownership of `/etc/firestarter/firewall.sh' to gavin
> [root at local ~]# ls -l /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh
> -rw-r--r--  1 gavin root 0 May 18  2004 /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh
> 
> 
> [root at local ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/firestarter start
> Flushing all current rules and user defined chains:        [  OK  ]
> Clearing all current rules and user defined chains:        [  OK  ]
> Zeroing all current rules:                                 [  OK  ]
> Applying Firestarter configuration: /etc/rc.d/init.d/firestarter: line
> 39: /etc/firestarter/firewall.sh: Permission denied
>                                  &#-1;&#-1;                         [FAILED]

Looking further into the obvious clues with my own problem, I found that
the line where the fail occurred, line 39
of /etc/rc.d/init.d/firestarter, contained only this command:

$FS_CONFIG

	... yet I can't find that command any where on my drive.  Perhaps it's
buried in a binary somewhere?  Either way, I'm no closer to seeing why
that is causing a permissions problem.

-- 
Regards, 
        Gavin Chester