Bug 70716

Summary:	nscd initscript has wrong error handling
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Peter van Egdom <p.van.egdom>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	fweimer
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Description Peter van Egdom 2002-08-04 14:42:10 UTC

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Description of problem:
"nscd start" as normal user :

[peterve@limbo-pc init.d]$ ./nscd start
Starting nscd:                                             [  OK  ]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/nscd': Toegang geweigerd


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "nscd start" as a normal user
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:
Starting nscd:                                             [  OK  ]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/nscd': Toegang geweigerd

Expected Results:
Starting nscd:                                             [FAILED]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/nscd': Toegang geweigerd

Additional info:

Source RPM: glibc-2.2.90-17.src.rpm

Comment 1 Peter van Egdom 2002-11-01 22:22:11 UTC

Bug still occurs in Red Hat Linux 8.0.

Comment 2 Alan Cox 2002-12-15 22:07:23 UTC

The nscd lock file is intentionally root only