On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Sebastian Dransfeld wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, R.I.P. Deaddog wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Sebastian Dransfeld wrote:
> >
> > > xinetd runs with /root/tmp as TMPDIR. fam creates a socket in /root/tmp
> > > which users can't connect to.
> >
> > Btw, should fam be patched instead of xinetd !?
>
> I think xinetd should be patched. Services should use /tmp, not /root/tmp.
>
Both, package so the server uses the same path as the clients, might pose
a problem for anyone Not useing xinetd however, so the simplist way is to
hard code it to /var/tmp and only modify the binary
