Ubuntu
dhcp3 package

/tmp debug file sillyness

Bug #826672 reported by David
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dhcp3 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

dhcp3 (also known as isc-dhcp) when you enable 'debug' (set RUN="yes") in the /etc/dhcp/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/debug file blindly appends data to whatever is at /tmp/dhclient-script.debug ... this seems rather silly.

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Dave Walker (davewalker) wrote :

Thanks for the bug report.

Please can you clarify what the bug is, do you think it should log to /var/log/*, or that it should be a value that can be set in the debug hook.

Thanks.

Changed in dhcp3 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Incomplete
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David (d--) wrote :

Well the bug is that on systems which do not run with the YAMA kernel patch(i.e. most non-ubuntu systems) the use of the debug file in the /tmp directory could result in extra unwanted data being appended to $random file(if /tmp/dhclient-script.debug is actually a symbolic link).

IMHO recording the debug output to syslog would be a better idea.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for dhcp3 (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in dhcp3 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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