Re: /var/spool/uucppublic

2002-10-04 Thread Toomas Aas
Hi! But he shouldn't get the idea that he doesn't need the uucp user and group, like I did (after reading that you shouldn't have users you don't need). OS upgrade goes awry. There IS a make.conf thing NOUUCP=true, but I haven't tried it yet, so can't say how well it works. I have tried

Re: /var/spool/uucppublic

2002-10-02 Thread pbdlists
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 10:39:19PM -0700, Mikko Työläjärvi wrote: Just delete the directory. And keep deleting it after every new upgrade, install or make world, until uucp finally is divorced from the base system, causing grief for all of the three people still alive using uucp... ;-).

Re: /var/spool/uucppublic

2002-10-01 Thread Mikko Työläjärvi
On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Socketd wrote: Hi all The above dir is world writeable, so I just want to know if it is installed as part of the base system and that program/process uses that dir? Can I mount it as no-exec and no-suid? It is part of the system and used by UUCP. As you do not seem to