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Bug 118837 - /etc/ppp/connect-errors should not exist, logs belong in /var/log
Summary: /etc/ppp/connect-errors should not exist, logs belong in /var/log
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ppp
Version: 2
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Thomas Woerner
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: 119780 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks: FC2Blocker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-03-21 11:49 UTC by Russell Coker
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-05-07 15:46:26 UTC
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Description Russell Coker 2004-03-21 11:49:46 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.2; Linux) (KHTML, like Gecko)

Description of problem:
/etc/ppp/connect-errors should not exist.  pppd should not need write access to /etc for any reason.

The SE Linux policy for pppd prevents it from writing to anything under /etc, I think that this matches the correct design for the system and that pppd should be changed to match.

Is such a log file necessary anyway?  Couldn't it just all go to syslog?

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How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2004-04-05 22:06:03 UTC 
*** Bug 119780 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 9 Nils Philippsen 2004-05-07 15:46:26 UTC 
ppp-2.4.2-5 which has these changes:

/etc/ppp/resolv.conf -> /var/run/ppp/resolv.conf
/etc/ppp/connect-errors -> /var/log/ppp/connect-errors

to avoid writing into /etc and an appropriate logrotate script should
hit Rawhide shortly.
Comment 10 Jason 2004-05-10 21:01:36 UTC 
Where can I get ppp-2.4.2-5?  It is not in
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/i386/Fedora/RPMS/
Comment 11 Nils Philippsen 2004-05-10 21:07:49 UTC 
Shortly, patience is the key here ;-). I'm sure it will get there with
the next push. CLOSED->RAWHIDEmeans that we have a package ready
_internally_, there is always a delay between when we are done and
when a package hits the FTP server.
Comment 12 Jason 2004-05-10 21:10:28 UTC 
Thank you.  I look forward to trying the new version.
Comment 13 Matthew Miller 2004-11-06 16:39:25 UTC 
ppp-2.4.2-5.2.FC2 has lines in the %install section of the spec file
to create the symlinks mentioned in comment #9, but they don't
actually end up in the binary RPM.

(This also appears to be the case in ppp-2.4.2-7 in rawhide...)

Am I missing something?
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