Buglet in Xlibs.tcz?

[Lee]

Edit: changed subject to  say "Xlibs" instead of "Xprogs".  20130505 1627

In trouble shooting my issues with expect, screen and dtach (where these program work only as root), I'm looking for possible permissions issues and I have noticed that the permissions for /var after a base / norestore reboot are

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drwxrwxr-x    8 root     staff          180 Dec  8  2011 var 
but after loading extensions they are

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drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var
So I wrote a little script ...

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#!/bin/sh
# varck - check ownership / perms of /var for changes
#
echo "varck: Run this after booting with base norestore"

TCE_MNT=/mnt/sdb1
TCE_DIR=${TCE_MNT}/boot/core4.7.6/tce

echo -n "  You have to manually mount ${TCE_MNT}.  Hit enter when done."
read JUNK

if [ -d ${TCE_DIR} ] ; then {
  rm /etc/sysconfig/tcedir
  ln -s ${TCE_DIR} /etc/sysconfig/tcedir
  ls -l /etc/sysconfig |grep tcedir

  echo "`ls -l / |grep var`    base / norestore"
  echo "`ls -l / |grep var`    base / norestore" >>${TCE_DIR}/varck.log

  cd ${TCE_DIR}
  cat onboot.lst |while read X ; do {
    tce-load -i ${X} >/dev/null 2>&1
    echo "`ls -l / |grep var`    after loading ${X}"
    echo "`ls -l / |grep var`    after loading ${X}" >>${TCE_DIR}/varck.log
  } done
 
} else {
  echo "ERROR: ${TCE_DIR} not found"
  exit 10
} fi

...to see who might be making the change and I got the following results:

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drwxrwxr-x    8 root     staff          180 Dec  8  2011 var    base / norestore
drwxrwxr-x    8 root     staff          180 Dec  8  2011 var    after loading fltk-1.1.10.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading Xlibs.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading Xprogs.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading Xvesa.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading wbar.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading jwm.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading zile.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading xtrlock.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading tcl_tk.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading openssh.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading filesystems-3.0.21-tinycore.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading flnotify.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading nss.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading xpdf.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading flash11.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading man.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading man-pages.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading xautolock-2.2.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading expect.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading bzip2.tcz
drwxr-xr-x    8 root     root           180 May 25  2009 var    after loading expect.tcz

This seems to imply that loading Xlibs is changing the ownership, permissions and date of /var.  I haven't yet checked to see if other files or directories are similarly affected.