Bug 70716 - nscd initscript has wrong error handling
Summary: nscd initscript has wrong error handling
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-04 14:42 UTC by Peter van Egdom
Modified: 2016-11-24 15:13 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2002-12-15 22:07:23 UTC
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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


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


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



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