[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#596483: init.d/urandom : Do not "rm -f $SAVEDFILE"

John Denker jsd at av8n.com
Sat Sep 11 21:40:22 UTC 2010


Package: initscripts
Version: 2.86.ds1-61
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Do not "rm -f $SAVEDFILE"
This is important in the case where $SAVEDFILE is a symlink.
Simply overwriting the file is easier and better.

This is #5 in a group of 5 patches for init.d/urandom.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.5
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26.5 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash


More information about the Pkg-sysvinit-devel mailing list