From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050524 Fedora/1.0.4-4 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: I running FC4 with kernel-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4. There is no /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield-randomize file. Was the randomize feature removed from FC4? I couldn't find anything in the release notes. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.12-1.1387_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. ls -l /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield-randomize 2. 3. Actual Results: ls: /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield-randomize: No such file or directory Expected Results: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 20 11:37 /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield-randomize Additional info:
I found out that the file name has apparently been changed to /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space. So I guess this is just a release notes issue. It needs to be in the release notes so that people can update their /etc/sysctl.conf file. Sorry for the noise. (I tried to change the priority to low, but bugzilla said that only the submitter could change that field, even though I am the submitter, and I am logged in. Odd.)
this functionality got implemented upsream, so the old name became obsolete. Sadly, not all changes like this get noticed in time for the release notes.