Debian bug report logs - #1255 , boring messages ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1255: Automatic update of the locate database includes AFS and ALEX FS! Reply-To: Dominik Kubla , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Dominik Kubla Orignal-Sender: dominik.kubla@Uni-Mainz.DE Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:33:07 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: findutils X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:33:07 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:20:34 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0siiMq-000Du2C; Wed, 16 Aug 95 06:18 PDT Received: from trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE by pixar.com with SMTP id AA08346 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 16 Aug 1995 06:18:35 -0700 Received: from kingluey.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (kingluey.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.13]) by trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA14662 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 15:18:32 +0200 Message-Id: <199508161318.PAA14662@trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 95 15:18:32 0200 Sender: dominik.kubla@Uni-Mainz.DE From: Dominik Kubla Organization: Johannes Gutenberg Universitdt, Mainz X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; AIX 2) Mime-Version: 1.0 To: debian-bugs@pixar.com X-Url: ftp://ftp.uni-mainz.de/pub/Linux/arch/i386/distrib/debian/debian-bugs/html/Reporting.html Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Package: findutils Version: 4.1-2 The cron.daily scripts included in that package does not check wether AFS or ALEX are installed on the host. Thus the updatedb utility will do a truly _GLOBAL_ find to update the database. As a fix to this add the --prunepath="/afs /alex" option by default. I would also like to hint that the install script should add the /home branch and the /var/spool/mail directory because of privacy issues. I am using 0.93R5 together with AFS3.3, NIS/AMD and Monsanto NQS. The look-and-feel is identical with all our Unix systems using X11R6 and OSF Motif 1.x Cheers, Dominik -- eMail: Dominik.Kubla@Uni-Mainz.DE sMail: Dominik Kubla, Lannerstrasse 53, D-55270 Ober-Olm, European Union PGP key: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~kubla/pgp.asc WLAF W3-site: http://www.uni-mainz.de/~kubla/WLAF/Welcome.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Dominik Kubla Subject: Bug#1255: Acknowledgement (was: Automatic update of the locate database includes AFS and ALEX FS!) In-Reply-To: <199508161318.PAA14662@trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> References: <199508161318.PAA14662@trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> Thank you for the problem report you have sent regarding Debian GNU/Linux. This is an automatically generated reply, to let you know your message has been received. It is being forwarded to the developers' mailing list for their attention; they will reply in due course. If you wish to submit further information on your problem, please send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, but please ensure that the Subject line of your message starts with "Bug#1255" or "Re: Bug#1255" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1255: Automatic update of the locate database includes AFS and ALEX FS! Reply-To: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell) Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:03:03 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: findutils X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:03:03 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 13:49:46 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0siip5-000DyjC; Wed, 16 Aug 95 06:47 PDT Received: from kryten.it.com.au by pixar.com with SMTP id AA08677 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 16 Aug 1995 06:47:35 -0700 Received: by kryten.it.com.au id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 16 Aug 95 21:46 WST Message-Id: From: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell) To: Dominik.Kubla@Uni-Mainz.DE, debian-bugs@pixar.com Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 21:46:54 +0800 (WST) In-Reply-To: <199508161318.PAA14662@trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> from "Dominik Kubla" at Aug 16, 95 03:18:32 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1283 > > Package: findutils > Version: 4.1-2 > > The cron.daily scripts included in that package does not check > wether AFS or ALEX are installed on the host. Thus the updatedb > utility will do a truly _GLOBAL_ find to update the database. > > As a fix to this add the --prunepath="/afs /alex" option by default. > I would also like to hint that the install script should add the /home > branch and the /var/spool/mail directory because of privacy issues. Seeing it's run as nobody by default I don't see how there is a privacy issue, no one can read your mail just by knowing the filename in /var/spool/mail unless someone has changed the permissions of the users mail spool file. Knowing where someone's mail spool file isn't a threat to someone's privacy imo :) /home is also quite safe if the users have their permissions set correctly. Andrew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dehydration - 34%, Recollection of previous evening - 2%, embarrassment factor - 91%. Advise repair schedule:- off line for 36 hours, re-boot startup disk, and replace head - wow, what a night! -- Kryten in Red Dwarf `The Last Day' Andrew Howell andrew@it.com.au Perth, Western Australia howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell) Subject: Bug#1255: Info received (was Bug#1255: Automatic update of the locate database includes AFS and ALEX FS!) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1255" or "Re: Bug#1255" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1255: Automatic update of the locate database includes AFS and ALEX FS! Reply-To: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell), debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell) Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:48:05 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: findutils X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:48:05 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Wed, 16 Aug 1995 14:39:29 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0sijan-0000ysC; Wed, 16 Aug 95 07:37 PDT Received: from kryten.it.com.au by pixar.com with SMTP id AA10315 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 16 Aug 1995 07:37:02 -0700 Received: by kryten.it.com.au id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Wed, 16 Aug 95 22:37 WST Message-Id: From: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell) To: dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de (Dominik Kubla), debian-bugs@pixar.com Date: Wed, 16 Aug 1995 22:37:01 +0800 (WST) In-Reply-To: <199508161417.QAA22970@klopfer.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE> from "Dominik Kubla" at Aug 16, 95 04:17:57 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 PGP2] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 717 > A sensible sysadmin will always assume that they have not ... ;-) I tend to believe users' files are their own problem. Also some users have public directories where they have files which they like other people to access and I think they should be included in the database. Andrew ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dehydration - 34%, Recollection of previous evening - 2%, embarrassment factor - 91%. Advise repair schedule:- off line for 36 hours, re-boot startup disk, and replace head - wow, what a night! -- Kryten in Red Dwarf `The Last Day' Andrew Howell andrew@it.com.au Perth, Western Australia howellaa@cs.curtin.edu.au ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: andrew@kryten.it.com.au (Andrew Howell) Subject: Bug#1255: Info received (was Bug#1255: Automatic update of the locate database includes AFS and ALEX FS!) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1255" or "Re: Bug#1255" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. Ian Jackson (maintainer, debian-bugs) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent to debian-devel@pixar.com: Subject: Bug#1255: Automatic update of the locate database includes AFS and ALEX FS! Reply-To: Ian Jackson , debian-bugs@pixar.com Resent-From: Ian Jackson Resent-To: debian-devel@pixar.com Resent-Date: Thu, 17 Aug 1995 02:03:02 GMT Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk X-Debian-PR-Package: findutils X-Debian-PR-Keywords: Received: via spool for debian-bugs; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 02:03:02 GMT Received: with rfc822 via encapsulated-mail; Thu, 17 Aug 1995 01:57:10 GMT Received: from pixar.com by mongo.pixar.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #15) id m0siuBj-000DPkA; Wed, 16 Aug 95 18:56 PDT Received: from bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk by pixar.com with SMTP id AA01560 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for debian-bugs-pipe@mongo.pixar.com); Wed, 16 Aug 1995 18:55:57 -0700 Received: by bootes.cus.cam.ac.uk (Smail-3.1.29.0 #36) id m0siuBe-000BzIA; Thu, 17 Aug 95 02:56 BST Received: by chiark id (Debian /\oo/\ Smail3.1.29.1 #29.33); Thu, 17 Aug 95 02:33 BST Message-Id: Date: Thu, 17 Aug 95 02:33 BST From: Ian Jackson To: Dominik Kubla , debian-bugs@pixar.com Precedence: air-mail Dominik Kubla writes: > The cron.daily scripts included in that package does not check > wether AFS or ALEX are installed on the host. Thus the updatedb > utility will do a truly _GLOBAL_ find to update the database. > > As a fix to this add the --prunepath="/afs /alex" option by default. > I would also like to hint that the install script should add the /home > branch and the /var/spool/mail directory because of privacy issues. Can you tell me what the fstype of Alex and AFS filesystems are ? `alex' and `afs' ? If alex filesystems are just NFS I suppose I shall have to add them to the cron package's `checksecurity' script's exclusion list by `common mount point'. Perhaps we need a general list of `exclude this fstype and that directory from any recursive searches' config file, as part of the cron package ? That way it will be less of a problem when we miss one out, and the modifications to the list won't be mixed up with general changes to the checksecurity script or the various cron.daily scripts. Ian. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Message sent: From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson) To: Ian Jackson Subject: Bug#1255: Info received (was Bug#1255: Automatic update of the locate database includes AFS and ALEX FS!) In-Reply-To: References: Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the developers to accompany the original report. If you wish to continue to submit further information on your problem, please do the same thing again: send it to debian-bugs@pixar.com, ensuring that the Subject line starts with "Bug#1255" or "Re: Bug#1255" so that we can identify it as relating to the same problem. Please do not reply to the address at the top of this message, unless you wish to report a problem with the bug-tracking system. 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