Thanks Boyd. I've created a file as you suggest. Is there anywhere I can inspect the messages that are generated during an update? I've looked in /var/log and couldn't find anything there, although I may have missed it. It would be nice to see this now working.
Can you answer the other question I asked: is my system likely to need some attention due to not having allowed scripts to execute in /tmp since I installed Lenny? If so what do I need to do (apart from reinstalling from scratch)? Russell 2009/6/3 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <b...@iguanasuicide.net> > In <779b039a0906030932kd76aed9n8692ec6aaef88...@mail.gmail.com>, Russell > Gadd wrote: > >For some time now, in order to add a bit of security I have made /tmp > >noexec. However I noticed recently looking at the messages scrolling up > > the screen that some update configuration scripts were failing as they > > were trying to be executed in /tmp. After googling I found this article: > > > >http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/57 > > > >Which said to fix this do the following: > > > >Add the following to the file /etc/apt/apt.conf: > > > > DPkg::Pre-Invoke{"mount -o remount,exec /tmp";}; > > DPkg::Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount /tmp";}; > > > >Unfortunately this article was written in 2004, and it seems that there's > > no longer a file /etc/apt/apt.conf > > Create a file under the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d directory. > > Similar to sources.list, apt.conf can be broken into a base file > /etc/apt/apt.conf and supplementary files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d; unlike > sources.list, this is the default for apt.conf. > > That's what the first paragraph of 'man 5 apt.conf' is trying to say. > -- > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. > b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) > ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' > http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ > >
