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Irets

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Registered: 2019-02-01

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Permissions mismatch after latest pacman -Syu. Should I be worried?

After running

sudo pacman -Syu

today, I noticed these two lines:

( 1/12) upgrading audit                            [----------------------] 100%
warning: directory permissions differ on /var/log/audit/
filesystem: 755  package: 700

I found a few pages online concerning this but I'm still not sure if I should take action and how.
Can this impact the stability of my system?

Last edited by Irets (2019-06-24 13:58:14)

Trilby

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Re: Permissions mismatch after latest pacman -Syu. Should I be worried?

There is nothing to worry about in the content of your post.  However, you should be worried about the title:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

Please edit your post and change the title to something meaningful.

Last edited by Trilby (2019-06-24 13:55:49)

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Re: Permissions mismatch after latest pacman -Syu. Should I be worried?

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/pack … 2346a63e7e

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Irets

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Re: Permissions mismatch after latest pacman -Syu. Should I be worried?

There is nothing to worry about in the content of your post.  However, you should be worried about the title:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … ow_to_post

Please edit your post and change the title to something meaningful.

Thank you for the quick reply, I've modified the title.
Would you happen to know why did pacman give that warning?
Cant recall seeing that before.

Last edited by Irets (2019-06-24 14:05:43)

2ManyDogs

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Re: Permissions mismatch after latest pacman -Syu. Should I be worried?

Would you happen to know why did pacman gave that warning?

See WorMzy's post.

Irets

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Re: Permissions mismatch after latest pacman -Syu. Should I be worried?

Would you happen to know why did pacman gave that warning?

See WorMzy's post.

I don't know what I should be looking at on that page but as long as there isn't anything wrong, I'm happy.

ewaller

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Re: Permissions mismatch after latest pacman -Syu. Should I be worried?

You can go and change those permissions by hand.   If the files exist, pacman won't change the permissions; just flag that they are not what the package being installed expects.

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Re: Permissions mismatch after latest pacman -Syu. Should I be worried?

see the replies in https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=245014