On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 15:22:29 -0000, CGS wrote:
I upgraded 83 packages in Trixie just now (a version change apparently) and the
message in the subject line appeared in the standard output.
Good grief. I just rebooted for Linux security upgrades the other day!
What's canonicalization?
In general, it means transforming something into its most official form. Like, taking a message that's full of abbreviations and changing each
of those abbreviations into its actual word/phrase.
If your / directory was actually owned by someone other than root, then
I'd say it's a good thing that it got fixed.
On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 18:30:57 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 04:09:11PM -0000, CGS wrote:
On 2026-05-16, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 15:22:29 -0000, CGS wrote:
If your / directory was actually owned by someone other than root, then >> > > I'd say it's a good thing that it got fixed.
I'm on a vanilla Trixie and have never touched /, so I'm baffled.
Do you have a user with uid 4242? Does:
grep 4242 /etc/passwd
show any output?
"id 4242" would be a better choice, just in case there are users
defined in LDAP, NIS, or whatever else people use these days.
Hi,
On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 04:09:11PM -0000, CGS wrote:
On 2026-05-16, Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 15:22:29 -0000, CGS wrote:
If your / directory was actually owned by someone other than root, then
I'd say it's a good thing that it got fixed.
I'm on a vanilla Trixie and have never touched /, so I'm baffled.
Do you have a user with uid 4242? Does:
grep 4242 /etc/passwd
show any output?
Thanks,
Andy
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