Bug 74339
| Summary: | redhat-config-date writes to the /usr partition | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux Beta | Reporter: | Daniel Walsh <dwalsh> |
| Component: | redhat-config-date | Assignee: | Brent Fox <bfox> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | RC2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2002-10-14 20:36:33 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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I will move the ntpservers file into /etc/ where it belongs. Should be fixed in CVS now. redhat-config-date-1.5.2-12 will move the file into /etc/ntp/ntpservers instead of /usr/share/redhat-config-date/ntpservers. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: No applications should write to the /usr partition. The disk should be able to be mounted read-only so that diskless and shared /usr environments can exist. redhat-config-date Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/mainWindow.py", line 85, in ok_clicked self.dateBackend.writeNtpConfig(sysTimeServer, ntpServerList) File "/usr/share/redhat-config-date/dateBackend.py", line 126, in writeNtpConfig fd = open("/usr/share/redhat-config-date/ntpservers", "w") IOError: [Errno 30] Read-only file system: '/usr/share/redhat-config-date/ntpservers' Application does not work with a read-only root. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Mount /usr read-only 2.run redhat-config-date 3.change to use a timeserver Actual Results: Application has a traceback. Expected Results: Should work Additional info: