Description of problem: df emits annoying error: `/var/named/chroot/proc': Permission denied unless run as root -OR- unless /var/named/chroot/proc is made world readible. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): coreutils-5.93-7.2 How reproducible: as regular user: type "df" Steps to Reproduce: 1. login 2. type "df" 3. error Actual results: yorky@/home/dmobrien: df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 73552908 18432676 51323672 27% / /dev/hda1 194442 9209 175194 5% /boot /dev/shm 501712 0 501712 0% /dev/shm df: `/var/named/chroot/proc': Permission denied yorky@/home/dmobrien: If done as root: yorky@/home/dmobrien: sudo df Password: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 73552908 18432676 51323672 27% / /dev/hda1 194442 9209 175194 5% /boot /dev/shm 501712 0 501712 0% /dev/shm yorky@/home/dmobrien: Or if change permissions (which seem to get reset after reboot) yorky@/home/dmobrien: ls -ld /var/named/ drwxr-x--- 5 root named 4096 Mar 22 17:40 /var/named/ yorky@/home/dmobrien: sudo chmod 755 /var/named/ yorky@/home/dmobrien: ls -ld /var/named/chroot drwxr-x--- 6 root named 4096 Mar 22 13:19 /var/named/chroot yorky@/home/dmobrien: sudo chmod 755 /var/named/chroot yorky@/home/dmobrien: ls -ld /var/named/chroot/proc dr-xr-xr-x 136 root root 0 Mar 23 08:32 /var/named/chroot/proc yorky@/home/dmobrien: df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 73552908 18432676 51323672 27% / /dev/hda1 194442 9209 175194 5% /boot /dev/shm 501712 0 501712 0% /dev/shm yorky@/home/dmobrien: Expected results: yorky@/home/dmobrien: df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda3 73552908 18432676 51323672 27% / /dev/hda1 194442 9209 175194 5% /boot /dev/shm 501712 0 501712 0% /dev/shm yorky@/home/dmobrien: Additional info: Problem with present with FC4 also.
Additional info: (typos) Problem WAS present with later versions of FC4, also.
This is fixed in 5.94.