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

[donavan nelson]

Either way, this is an UGLY hiteous hack.  This problem needs to be solved the
RIGHT way.  

IMHO, You would be far better off just editting the sysstat file with the
error in it.

.dn

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Donavan Nelson
4wx Networks
www.4wx.net

---------- Original Message -----------
From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@hughesjr.com>
To: "David E. Cox" <david.e.cox@nasa.gov>
Sent: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:50:15 -0600
Subject: RE: [WBEL-devel] re: 2nd RC coming?

> Not true .... the file that gets run .... /usr/sbin/sa needs a text file
> at /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 or sa2 ...
> 
> the text files and directory are world writable ... the process is not.
> On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 08:21, David E. Cox wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> 
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