openssh unix dev - Oct 2021 - Disable tracing on FreeBSD using procctl. (OpenSSH Portable 8.8)

On Fri, 15 Oct 2021 at 12:37, mike tancsa <mike at sentex.net>
wrote:
> Thanks, I am not sure why its failing on these particular instances. I
> tried just now on a separate box that has not had a previous version
> installed and it doesnt show the same behaviour. I will keep looking to
> see whats going on.
Did you start from a point where tracing is already disabled?  I could
imagine the second attempt to disable it failing because it was
already disabled.

If nothing else we should at least include the errno in the message
when it fails:
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/fff13aaa262b7b3ec83ed21e29674cbf331780a7

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On 10/14/2021 9:45 PM, Darren Tucker wrote:
> Did you start from a point where tracing is already disabled? I could
> imagine the second attempt to disable it failing because it was
> already disabled.
>
> If nothing else we should at least include the errno in the message
> when it fails:
>
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/fff13aaa262b7b3ec83ed21e29674cbf331780a7
Building now, but I need to include string.h no ?

On my RELENG_12 box (which is a jail)

Oct 14 22:03:04 internal-sftp[20149]: fatal: unable to make the process 
untraceable: No such process


 ??? ---Mike