On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 10:21:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
>
> I take it just symlinking /dev/log to /dev/null and throwing away
> messages isn't acceptable?
um...
$ ls -l /dev/log
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Jun 11 06:26 /dev/log
its a socket, so a symlink to /dev/null will still result in a
-ECONNREFUSED causing the message to go to the console again.
yes i just tried this.
> If you can set debconf questions in that phase of the installation, you
> could set man-db/build-database to false, but you'd have to cause it to
> be built later on.
>
> Failing that, maybe I can have mandb attempt to setuid(man) if it's
> processing only system manpaths, and lose the su.
its already setuid, setuid doesn't work for dropping privileges, only
gaining them.
i think a better soltution is using start-stop-daemon --chuid man
instead of su. it won't setup the environment but mandb shouldn't
care no? start-stop-daemon will do what you want -- changing to uid
man -- without the logging cruft.
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