Snapshot report - ssh error

[Karl M]

Hi All...

It was a permissions problem with /var/run/utmp.

But that got me looking...back in Nov 2003, Corinna made the following 
change to ssh-host-config

# Create /var/log and /var/log/lastlog if not already existing

-if [ -f /var/log ]
+if [ -f ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log ]
then
-  echo "Creating /var/log failed\!"
+  echo "Creating ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log failed!"
else
-  if [ ! -d /var/log ]
+  if [ ! -d ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log ]
   then
-    mkdir -p /var/log
+    mkdir -p ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log
   fi
-  if [ -d /var/log/lastlog ]
+  if [ -d ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log/lastlog ]
   then
-    echo "Creating /var/log/lastlog failed\!"
-  elif [ ! -f /var/log/lastlog ]
+    chmod 777 ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log/lastlog
+  elif [ ! -f ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log/lastlog ]
   then
-    cat /dev/null > /var/log/lastlog
+    cat /dev/null > ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log/lastlog
+    chmod 666 ${LOCALSTATEDIR}/log/lastlog
   fi
fi

And I am curious why set the permissions to 777 on /var/log/lastlog if it is 
a directory?

Thanks,

...Karl

>From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: Snapshot report - ssh error
>Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:16:31 +0100
>
>On Feb 22 20:51, Karl M wrote:
> > Hi All...
> >
> > With the latest snapshots (2/22, 2/20 and possible 2/19, not sure about
> > 2/19 and have not tried any before that) I get an error in my 
>application
> > log like the following after each interactive ssh session loggs off.
> >
> > sshd: PID 2928: syslogin_perform_logout: logout() returned an error.
>
>A permission problem with /var/log/wtmp or /var/run/utmp?
>
>
>Corinna
>
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