From owner-freebsd-security Tue May 28 09:05:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-security Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA09470 for security-outgoing; Tue, 28 May 1996 09:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from GndRsh.aac.dev.com (GndRsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA09462 for ; Tue, 28 May 1996 09:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by GndRsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id JAA23308; Tue, 28 May 1996 09:05:34 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199605281605.JAA23308@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: [linux-security] Things NOT to put in root's crontab (fwd) To: coredump@nervosa.com (Chris J. Layne) Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 09:05:34 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Chris J. Layne" at "May 28, 96 07:52:51 am" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL11 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-security@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > followup > > == Chris Layne ======================================== Nervosa Computing == > == coredump@nervosa.com ================ http://www.nervosa.com/~coredump == > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 11:47:00 +1000 > From: Paul Szabo > To: Multiple recipients of list BUGTRAQ > Subject: Re: [linux-security] Things NOT to put in root's crontab ... > #! /usr/local/bin/perl -- ... > > if ( -d '/usr/apollo' ) { $apollo = 1; } Not a very safe check to see if you are running on an Apollo system, this would get tripped by a few of my systems used for cross work. Better check would be if ( -d '/sys/node_data' ) { $apollo = 1; } -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD