From owner-freebsd-security Mon Feb 23 09:56:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07798 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:56:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (passer.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.110.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA07744 for ; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:55:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cschuber@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.8/8.6.10) id JAA02501; Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:55:22 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802231755.JAA02501@passer.osg.gov.bc.ca> Received: from localhost(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "passer.osg.gov.bc.ca" via SMTP by localhost, id smtpdaaCula; Mon Feb 23 09:55:13 1998 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0gamma 1/27/96 Reply-to: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-Sender: cschuber To: "David E. Tweten" cc: Robert Watson , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Find, Rm, and Root's Crontab In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 21 Feb 1998 11:57:04 PST." <199802211957.LAA16982@ns.frihet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:54:35 -0800 From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > robert@cyrus.watson.org said: > >I have actually found that the best and most enjoyable solution to / > >tmp-cleaning is to use an MFS-based /tmp. > > I agree. I use it. My problem isn't /tmp cleaning. It's cleaning #* files, > *~ files, core files, etc. from wherever they hide. My exmh #* files, for > example, live under my home directory in the messages' original folders from > before they were "deleted" by exmh. > > The problem that used to be solved by find and rm, before we discovered that > they constitute unsafe computing, is (old) junk files wherever they may be > found. > > So, again, did FreeBSD decide to do anything more than comment out junk file > removal in /etc/daily? If so, is it done and what is it? If not, can I help Try the -delete flag of find. It is not atomic so a race condition, though much smaller, still exists. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 UNIX Support OV/VM: BCSC02(CSCHUBER) ITSD BITNET: CSCHUBER@BCSC02.BITNET Government of BC Internet: cschuber@uumail.gov.bc.ca Cy.Schubert@gems8.gov.bc.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe security" in the body of the message