On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 08:06:36PM -0800, Nick Arnett wrote: > For those who care, I've found out what the mysterious message > containing "/root:" and some number was all about. It comes from > Lynx, the text-based Web client, which Mailman (our friendly local > list server software) uses to convert HTML to text. On some versions > of RedHat Linux (on which I'm running Mailman), if Mailman is started > by root, then Lynx tries to use /root as its temporary directory, but > it cannot, since it doesn't have permission.
Ouch! > I've made the necessary changes to prevent this. I hope the changes involve not letting lynx run as root. That could be a security problem. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
