Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:17:42 +0100 (MET) From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.win.tue.nl> To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: improved setuid and device file checker for /etc/security Message-ID: <199702231217.NAA16739@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <199702230636.WAA22830@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> from Don Lewis at "Feb 22, 97 10:36:27 pm"
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Don Lewis wrote: > A few weeks ago I solicited input on how to prevent locate.updatedb and > /etc/security wasting a lot of time digging around the article spool on > our news server. I got a lot of suggestions on different ways to tweak > these scripts to prevent this, but the suggestions mostly involved making > custom changes to these scripts that would be somewhat of a hassle to > maintain. The locate stuff is easy. You can specify parts that have to be skipped. If I remember corectly, it can be controlled by locate.conf in /etc. But only in 2.2. -Guido
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