Bug 74339 – redhat-config-date writes to the /usr partition

Bug 74339 - redhat-config-date writes to the /usr partition

Summary:	redhat-config-date writes to the /usr partition

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux Beta
Classification:	Retired
Component:	redhat-config-date (Show other bugs)
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Version:	RC2
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Brent Fox
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Reported:	2002-09-20 15:04 EDT by Daniel Walsh
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:38 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-10-14 16:36:33 EDT
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Description Daniel Walsh 2002-09-20 15:04:33 EDT

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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.

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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

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Comment 1 Brent Fox 2002-10-14 16:36:26 EDT

I will move the ntpservers file into /etc/ where it belongs.

Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-10-14 16:45:41 EDT

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.

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