[WBEL-devel] re: 2nd RC coming?

[David E. Cox]

On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 13:28, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> A work around that prevents the root mailbox from filling up is this
> (as root):
> 
> mkdir /usr/lib64
> mkdir /usr/lib64/sa
> touch /usr/lib64/sa1
> touch /usr/lib64/sa2
> chmod -R 777 /usr/lib64
> 
> Johnny Hughes

Yikes! don't do this.

You've just created a world writable file that gets run as root every 10
minutes.  

"rpm -e sysstat"  will have the same effect but not introduce a security
hole.

dave