[25254] in Athena Bugs
Re: netstat doesn't work
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Mon Nov 3 10:38:47 2003
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2003 10:38:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: <200311022201.hA2M1eZk023845@brad-majors.mit.edu> (Garry
Zacheiss's message of "Sun, 02 Nov 2003 17:01:40 -0500")
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Well, strangely, none of the patches have fixed it along the way.
Also, IIRC, another one of Heather's machines had this problem, too
(or perhaps Kikki had this problem before, because I recall reporting
it before).
Thanks,
-derek
Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU> writes:
>>> So, either netstat is incorrectly in the adm group, or
>>> /dev/ip is incorrectly in the sys group.
>
> I haven't been able to find another machine for which this is true. On
> all the other Athena 9.2 machines I can find, netstat is correctly
> setgid to the sys group.
>
> Additionally, there's something else odd going on, because the netstat
> binary you showed off:
>
>>> --> ls -l /usr/bin/netstat
>>> -r-xr-sr-x 1 root adm 55184 Nov 9 2002 /usr/bin/netstat
>
> has the size and timestamp of the one of the 9.1 packs, not the 9.2
> packs:
>
> [zacheiss@brad-majors] ~$ ls -l /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/sun4x_58/os-9.1/usr/bin/netstat /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/sun4x_59/os/usr/bin/netstat
> -r-xr-sr-x 1 root sys 55184 Nov 9 2002 /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/sun4x_58/os-9.1/usr/bin/netstat
> -r-xr-sr-x 1 root sys 61912 May 23 2002 /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/sun4x_59/os/usr/bin/netstat
>
> which makes me suspect there was a problem in the 9.1 -> 9.2 update on
> just that machine, but since the update.log for that update is long
> gone, I suspect we won't be able to know for sure.
>
> If no one else can find a machine that also has this problem, I'd
> recommend reinstalling.
>
> Garry
>
>
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