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

[David E. Cox]

Below is the /etc/cron.d/sysstat file from whitebox's
sysstat-4.0.7-4.i386.rpm 

Isn't this what invokes sa1 and sa2?

dave

  # run system activity accounting tool every 10 minutes
  */10 * * * * root /usr/lib64/sa/sa1 1 1
  # generate a daily summary of process accounting at 23:53
  53 23 * * * root /usr/lib64/sa/sa2 -A


On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 10:50, Johnny Hughes wrote:
> 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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