ottomeister wrote:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:48 AM, Hagen Heiduck <[email protected]> wrote:
after upgrading to SRS 5.1.2 on Solaris x64 I've been noticing a lot of the
above files (currently about 2,000), which seem not to vanish at all. What
are they good for, and is it possible to prevent their creation?
These are temporary files used by 'utwho' and 'utfwload'. It's a bug
that they don't get removed. You can safely delete the old ones, and as
a workaround to prevent new ones from being left around you can edit
the 'trap' lines in 'utwho' and 'utfwload' to remove these in addition
to the other files that are already removed by that line.
Thanks for the info, I've modified the mentioned line so the issue is
solved by now.
But besides from that - is it really a good idea to create rather
predictable files as superuser within the /tmp directory, in terms of
security? I mean, everyone could create such files in advance as a
symlink to any destination, which itself could be overwritten, due to
the superuser rights when 'utwho' is called as root.
Hagen
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