From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020513 Netscape/7.0b1 Description of problem: bash -x condtional expression primitive is broken for root it tests true for files that don't have execute permission Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1./etc/auto.misc defaults to 644 permissions 2. AS root run, if [ -x /etc/auto.misc ]; echo "true" ; fi 3. Actual Results: # if [ -x /etc/auto.misc ]; echo "true" ; fi true # Expected Results: # if [ -x /etc/auto.misc ]; echo "true" ; fi # comamnd should have just returned Additional info: This bug seems to effectively break the auto.misc autofs map for autofs
the bug seems to only occur on xfs filesystems I suppose that means I need to tell the xfs people and not redhat. Sorry
The workaround for bug #66562 in bash 2.05b-6 should fix this as well (though xfs should be fixed as well).
FYI - This has been fixed in XFS as well.