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- From: rsnyder@atl.ge.com (Bob Snyder)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: tmp doesn't seem to be clearing. . .
- Keywords: tmp files hvtmp
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.211324.26632@puma.ATL.GE.COM>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 21:13:24 GMT
- References: <1992Sep10.120029.6372@eng.ufl.edu> <1992Sep15.042444.3062@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep15.042444.3062@midway.uchicago.edu> popelka@odysseus.uchicago.edu (Glenn Popelka) writes:
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- >We just installed 4.1.2 on a few machines, and after noticing a large amount of
- >.getwd files in /tmp, found that the sticky bit is turned on by default for the
- >/tmp directory. We turned it off.
-
- 'course, I believe now anyone can erase anyone else's files from the /tmp
- directory.... (Setting the sticky bit on /tmp is specifically discussed in
- the sticky(8) man page...
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- Bob
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