At 27 Aug 2002 10:37:17 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-24 at 20:43, Angus Lees wrote:
> > At Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:15:47 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
> > > Ohhhhh, the penny may have just dropped this could be SOPHOS
> > > doing a sweep, does that sound likely?
> > > Out of disk space checking
> > > /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/G/GS/GSAR/perl-5.6.1.tar.gz/perl-5.6.1.tar -
> > > temporary directory is not large enough
> > 
> > that directory (and directory structure) is normally used by the
> > "CPAN" perl module (usually invoked with "perl -MCPAN -e shell"). in
> > this case, it looks like root was running that command.
> 
> Does the CPAN module clear out old archives after it's installed them? 
> If not, it could very well be SOPHOS trying to extract that old tarball
> to scan the contents.

no CPAN.pm doesn't clear them out (well, it has a max size and it
clears them out once its over that size. but only on the next
invocation, iirc).

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