Bug 445947
| Summary: | sysreport.legacy reports "Cannot make temp dir" | ||||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | Reporter: | Bryan Mason <nobody+bjmason> | ||||||
| Component: | sos | Assignee: | Adam Stokes <astokes> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||||
| Version: | 5.2 | CC: | agk, azelinka, bmr, tao | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | ZStream | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||
| Last Closed: | 2009-01-20 21:42:17 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 391501 | ||||||||
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Created attachment 305002 [details]
Proposed patch
Create a new variable named TEMP='/tmp' and replace occurrences of $HOME with
$TEMP. I've tested this by renaming /root to /root.saved and running
sysreport.legacy as root from /.
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release. Product Management has requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed products. This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update release. Some security-related concerns have been raised about the use of /tmp to store the temporary files. Specifically, see Comment #3 of Bug 320620 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454690#c3) which is the RHEL 4 version of this Bug. As soon as we get agreement on the final patch for RHEL 4, I'll post an updated patch here. Created attachment 324534 [details]
Updated patch
Don't know if we ever got "agreement" per-se, but nobody complained about the attached patch that was proposed for the RHEL 4 version of this bug.
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0171.html |
Description of problem: Because sysreport.legacy uses $HOME as it's root directory, problems can occur if $HOME doesn't exist or isn't writable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sos-1.7-9.2.el5.noarch How reproducible: Every time, if the home directory doesn't exist. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log into a system using an account that has no local home directory. 2. Run sysreport.legacy as root using sudo. Actual results: $ sudo /usr/sbin/sysreport.legacy Password: Cannot make temp dir Expected results: Sysreport generated. Additional info: This is actually the same problem reported in Bug 355071, but that report was for sysreport and this is reported against sysreport.legacy.