mysqld_safe should diagnose non-root user for setting vm.drop_caches
Bug #1432509 reported by
Laurynas Biveinis
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | ||
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| Percona Server moved to https://jira.percona.com/projects/PS | Status tracked in 5.7 | |||||
| 5.1 |
Invalid
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Undecided
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| 5.5 |
Triaged
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Medium
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| 5.6 |
Triaged
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Medium
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| 5.7 |
Triaged
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Medium
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Bug Description
Split from bug 1419541, comment #4:
Raghavendra D Prabhu (raghavendra-
The problem here is that, the 'run as root requirement' (well, more of euid 0) is not checked for the sysctl:
=====
elif ! sysctl -q -w vm.drop_caches=3
then
log_error "sysctl failed, check the error message for details"
exit 1
fi
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So, that is the bug.
It is done, for instance, for thp setting
if [ $(id -u) -ne 0 ]; then
log_error "mysqld_safe must be run as root for setting transparent huge pages!"
exit 1
| tags: | added: pkg |
Revision history for this message
| Shahriyar Rzayev (rzayev-sehriyar) wrote | #1 |
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