Re: overwrite any file with updatedb
On Tue, 3 Mar 1998 10:39:05 +0100 (CET), Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
>I don't have a Red Hat system at hands to test this, so let me tell you
>what it's like on a Debian pre-2.0 system, which I am currently using.
>
>On my system, this bug is present.
>
>Daily, cron runs "run-parts /etc/cron.daily" as root. In this directory is
>a file named "find" with these contents:
>
And as has been pointed out this is "A Bad Thing"(tm) however on a Red Hat
system >= 4.2 this runs as nobody so it isn't an immediate issue.
>I think the only way to really fix this is to patch sort, so that it
>doesn't create files with easy-to-predict names. See "man 3 tmpfile" for a
>good hint on this.
Amazingly enough I also said that we would be doing this. Did you read my
message at all?
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