From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/739 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George Georgalis" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.text.xml.cocoon.user,gmane.comp.misc.pape.general Subject: Re: a problem with linux 2.6.11 and sa Followup-To: gmane.linux.kernel Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 12:19:53 -0500 Message-ID: <20050308171953.GB1936@ixeon.local> References: <20050303214023.GD1251@ixeon.local> <6.2.1.2.0.20050303165334.038f32a0@192.168.50.2> <20050303224616.GA1428@ixeon.local> <871xaqb6o0.fsf@amaterasu.srvr.nix> <20050308165814.GA1936@ixeon.local> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110302767 2995 80.91.229.2 (8 Mar 2005 17:26:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 17:26:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: supervision-return-978-gcsg-supervision=m.gmane.org@list.skarnet.org Tue Mar 08 18:26:06 2005 Original-Received: from antah.skarnet.org ([212.85.147.14] ident=qmailr) by ciao.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D8iN2-0005R3-AQ for gcsg-supervision@gmane.org; Tue, 08 Mar 2005 18:19:48 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 4590 invoked by uid 76); 8 Mar 2005 17:20:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact supervision-help@list.skarnet.org; run by ezmlm List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: Original-Received: (qmail 4585 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2005 17:20:16 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, users@spamassassin.apache.org, misc@list.smarden.org, supervision@list.skarnet.org, nix@esperi.org.uk, mkettler@evi-inc.com Original-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, users@spamassassin.apache.org, misc@list.smarden.org, supervision@list.skarnet.org, nix@esperi.org.uk, mkettler@evi-inc.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050308165814.GA1936@ixeon.local> X-MailScanner-To: gcsg-supervision@gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:739 gmane.linux.kernel:285278 gmane.text.xml.cocoon.user:47040 gmane.comp.misc.pape.general:946 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general:739 On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 11:58:14AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote: >On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:37:03PM +0000, Nix wrote: >>On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, George Georgalis uttered the following: >>> I recall a problem a while back with a pipe from >>> /proc/kmsg that was sent by root to a program with a >>> user uid. The fix was to run the logging program as >>> root. Has that protected pipe method been extended >>> since 2.6.8.1? >> >>The entire implementation of pipes has been radically revised between >>2.6.10 and 2.6.11: see, e.g., and >>. >> >>Bugs have been spotted in this area in 2.6.10: this may be >>another one. > >Thanks, my issue is clearly between 2.6.10 and 2.6.11; though I won't be >able to drill down anything more specific, for a while. The links >do look relevant but I cannot say for sure. My last post didn't actually describe what the problem is, which is spamassassin always scores 0/0 under 2.6.11 but functions properly (scoring x/5) under 2.6.10. More details are in the thread of this post. http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/3/513 // George -- George Georgalis, systems architect, administrator Linux BSD IXOYE http://galis.org/george/ cell:646-331-2027 mailto:george@galis.org