staprun:init_cap:73: ERROR: cap_set_proc: Operation not permitted

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Wed Jan 16 16:31:00 GMT 2008


David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com> writes:

>> Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)
>> Kernel 2.6.24-rc7

(Just for clarity, that's not an RHEL5 kernel.)

>> [...]
>> staprun:init_cap:73: ERROR: cap_set_proc: Operation not permitted
> The answer before (from Martin) was that the kernel needs to be built
> with CONFIG_SECURITY_CAPABILITIES=y

It would be nice if we had a reduced(?)-security fallback mode in the
runtime to tolerate capability-less kernels.

- FChE



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