Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 16:17:27 -0500 (EST) From: Barry Masterson <jbarrm@panix.com> To: Freebsd-questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 2.1.6 -> 2.1.7 & No bin distribution Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970322152636.448A-100000@jbarrm.dialup.access.net>
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I have completed the upgrade from 2.1.6 to 2.1.7 from the recently
released CD. During my three tries, I was prompted at the end of
the upgrade with this message:
Couldn't extract the following distributions:
bin catpages
and
Hmmmm. We couldn't even extract the bin distribution.
This upgrade should be considered a failure and started
from the beginning, sorry.
I selected just about everything for installation, bin included.
On the third attempt I decided to fix up the /etc files anyway.
All seems ok now, and the new kernel is stable, however I noticed
a few things:
1) /etc has permissions of 700 (drwx------). I changed this to
755, since 'ls -l' as a normal user displayed user/group ID's
in numeric form. And the man pages could not be displayed.
Chmod to 755 has corrected this.
2) Every 'pwd', 'ls' or 'cd' to a directory that wasn't in my
ownership or group caused the following message to be
displayed to ttyv0:
login: Mar 22 19:23:44 jbarrm: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied
Again, changing /etc to 755 seems to have stopped this.
3) I have two different time stamps displayed in the messages file:
Mar 22 14:10:40 jbarrm sshd[130]: log: RSA key generation complete.
Mar 22 14:11:00 jbarrm login: login on ttyv1 as jbarrm
Mar 22 19:11:08 jbarrm ls: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied
Mar 22 19:11:30 jbarrm last message repeated 2 times
Mar 22 19:13:10 jbarrm last message repeated 3 times
Mar 22 14:13:47 jbarrm login: login on ttyv2 as jbarrm
Mar 22 19:13:51 jbarrm ls: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied
Mar 22 14:14:11 jbarrm su: jbarrm to root on /dev/ttyv2
Mar 22 19:14:26 jbarrm ls: /etc/pwd.db: Permission denied
My questions are:
1) Should I have been able to extract the bin distribution
from the 2.1.7 Security Release CD during the upgrade?
2) Whats going on with the two different time stamps?
3) Are the permissions 700 for /etc a new security feature? Or is 755
the correct setting?
Thanks,
Barry Masterson
jbarrm@panix.com
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