[leafnode-list] Re: weird crash on RHEL-7

[Matěj Cepl]

On 2014-12-26, 01:31 GMT, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Frankly, I am too disinterested in reading autoconf's NEWS file two
> years after the fact.  My working assumption is that if the packaged
> "configure" file does not fit the bill, the developer will need the
> minimum required autoconf version.  I currently have 2.69 here.  With
> the same commit that bumped the requirement up to 2.68, I also added
> silent-rules but I haven't commented nor do I remember if there are any
> special features I am using.  Feel free to kill the PREREQ line and see
> if it works for your.

I haven't managed to do much larger testing, but it builds 
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=8485355 on 
all EPEL6 architectures (x86_64, i686, ppc64; 
https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org//work/tasks/5355/8485355/build.log) 
and your minimalistic testsuite passes.

> Uh.  It's trying to look up the user ID from the user name.  
> Is that before or after the run_as_user=news addition to 
> config?

Before. run_as_user=news is hack fixing this issue (or more 
likely working around it).

> Are the parent directory permissions/uid/gid suitable such 
> that the "news" user (or whatever you configure) has the 
> necessary permissions?

mitmanek:~# ls -ld /var/spool/news
drwxr-sr-x. 21 news news 4096 Dec 26 01:03 /var/spool/news
mitmanek:~# find /var/spool/news -maxdepth 1 -type d -ls
10410358    4 drwxr-sr-x  21 news     news         4096 Dec 26 01:03 /var/spool/news
145281025    0 drwxrwsr-x   4 news     news           37 Dec 25 21:42 /var/spool/news/.mozilla
10410359    0 drwxrwsr-x   2 news     news            6 Dec 25 21:42 /var/spool/news/dormant.groups
145281031    0 drwxrwsr-x   9 news     news           90 Dec 26 01:03 /var/spool/news/gmane
145280933    0 drwxrwsr-x   7 news     news           72 Dec 26 01:03 /var/spool/news/grc
312845230    0 drwxrwsr-x   2 news     news            6 Dec 26 21:34 /var/spool/news/in.coming
402694563    8 drwxrwsr-x   2 news     news         4096 Dec 26 01:03 /var/spool/news/interesting.groups
10410377    4 drwxr-sr-x   2 news     news         4096 Dec 27 11:40 /var/spool/news/leaf.node
145280935   40 drwxrwsr-x 1002 news     news        16384 Dec 25 21:42 /var/spool/news/message.id
275399511    0 drwxrwsr-x   6 news     news           58 Dec 26 01:03 /var/spool/news/mozilla
402695179    0 drwxrwsr-x   3 news     news           17 Dec 25 21:42 /var/spool/news/rec
402695180    0 drwxrwsr-x   3 news     news           21 Dec 25 21:42 /var/spool/news/news
275399514    0 drwxrwsr-x   3 news     news           17 Dec 25 21:42 /var/spool/news/.cache
10411289    0 drwxrwsr-x   3 news     news           17 Dec 25 21:42 /var/spool/news/.config
275399515    0 drwxrwsr-x   2 news     news            6 Dec 25 21:42 /var/spool/news/failed.postings
402695183    0 drwxrwsr-x   2 news     news           30 Dec 26 21:34 /var/spool/news/out.going
10411291    0 drwxrwsr-x   2 news     news            6 Dec 27 11:40 /var/spool/news/temp.files
145282203    0 drwxrwsr-x   6 news     news           49 Dec 25 21:52 /var/spool/news/cz
10432363    0 drwxrws---   3 news     news           17 Dec 25 21:51 /var/spool/news/local
145283260    0 drwxr-s---   3 news     news           19 Dec 26 01:03 /var/spool/news/microsoft
mitmanek:~# sudo -u news /usr/sbin/texpire -f -vvv -e -r
cannot uid_getbyuname(mockbuild,&ui): Success

texpire initialization failed. aborting.
mitmanek:~#

Best,

Matěj