The area under suspicion appears to work when run by hand but the install
script still fails.
--->
$ su -l root
Password:
[root@xen01 ~]# which useradd
/usr/sbin/useradd
[root@xen01 ~]# which nologin
/sbin/nologin
[root@xen01 ~]# ll /dev/null
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Nov 16 13:09 /dev/null
[root@xen01 ~]# /usr/sbin/useradd -c "Privilege-separated SSH" -u 74 \
> -s /sbin/nologin -r -d /var/empty/sshd sshd 2> /dev/null
[root@xen01 ~]# yum update openssh-server
Setting up Update Process
Setting up repositories
dag 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
centos-test 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
update 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
centosplus 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
addons 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 1.2 MB 00:25
dag : ################################################## 5217/5217
Added 5 new packages, deleted 13 old in 8.25 seconds
Reducing Dag Wieers RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux to
included packages only
Finished
Reducing CentOS-4 Testing to included packages only
Finished
Reducing CentOS-4 - Plus to included packages only
Finished
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package openssh-server.i386 0:3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
Dependencies Resolved
=============================================================================
Package Arch Version Repository Size
=============================================================================
Updating:
openssh-server i386 3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1 update
208 k
Transaction Summary
=============================================================================
Install 0 Package(s)
Update 1 Package(s)
Remove 0 Package(s)
Total download size: 208 k
Is this ok [y/N]: y
Downloading Packages:
Running Transaction Test
Finished Transaction Test
Transaction Test Succeeded
Running Transaction
error: %pre(openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1.i386) scriptlet failed, exit
status 255
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
openssh-server-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1
Updated: openssh-server.i386 0:3.9p1-8.RHEL4.17.1
Complete
<---
I have my doubts about this part of the pre-install script, however my
skills are certainly far inferior to the task of deciphering this:
--->
# FIXME: What an unmaintainable mess. ;o) There almost has to be a cleaner
# way of doing this. If not, it needs to be figured out and documented to
# avoid confusion.
use_unix=
for config in /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/XF86Config
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 ; do
if [ -f $config ] && grep -q "unix/:" $config &> /dev/null; then
use_unix=1
fi
if [ -f $config ] && grep -q "unix/:-1" $config &> /dev/null; then
rm -f $config.new $config.rpmsave
sed "s#unix/:-1#unix/:7100#g" $config > $config.new
cp -f $config $config.rpmsave
cat $config.new > $config
rm -f $config.new
fi
if [ -f $config ] && grep -q "unix/:" $config &> /dev/null && \
grep -q "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" $config &> /dev/null ;
then \
sed "s|FontPath[ ]*\"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType\"|#FontPath
\"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType\"|g" $config > $config.new
cat $config.new > $config
rm -f $config.new
fi
done
# If the font server config is using UNIX sockets, disable TCP listen by
default
if [ -n "$use_unix" ] && ! grep -q "no-listen" /etc/X11/fs/config &>
/dev/null;then
echo -e "# don't listen on tcp by default\nno-listen = tcp\n" >>
/etc/X11/fs/config
fi
}
<---
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