[27040] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.34: tcpdump
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Mon Jan 22 13:56:08 2007
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To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 13:55:58 -0500
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>
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> We don't currently have a plan for fixing this bug, but I'm open to
> suggestions.
I've just realized this is easily fixable. The preinstall script for
tcpdump that creates user pcap is set up to be failure tolerant (it dumps
all output to /dev/null and explicitly return success, so the transaction
set won't report failure), so adding our own pcap user with a different
uid will render that a noop.
I'll set this up for the next release.
