[PLUG] Securing the Box
alan
alan at clueserver.org
Wed Oct 6 22:42:02 UTC 2004
On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Russ Johnson wrote:
> Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> >Either --force things, or use a distro that uses apt on a packaging
> >system that has decent dependency checking...
> >
> >
> As explained in other posts, the results Bill was seeing are correct,
> and the dependency checking is absolutely correct as well.
>
> It was simply a matter of needing some instruction on how to install.
> Specifying both RPMs on the command line resolved the issue.
>
> Nothing wrong with the package manager there. It was doing exactly as it
> was designed to do.
On a hacked system you also have to be aware of the "immutable" flag.
--force does not overwrite when that flag is set. (Not a Redhat problem.
The filesystem is supposed to do that. Debian does the same thing.)
"find" does not seem to have an option for finding extended attributes in
an ext2/3 filesystem. lsattr will do it, but is kind of brute force.
(i.e. it gives you a lot of crap you do not need.)
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