Re: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-02:27.rc

From: Roger Marquis (marquis@roble.com)
Date: 05/31/02 

Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 17:23:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
To: security@FreeBSD.ORG

Crist J. Clark wrote:
>Ick. How about,
>
> # /usr/bin/printf "/.X11-unix/s/^/#/\nw\nq\n" | /bin/ed -s /etc/rc

Why not:

        # rm -rf /tmp/.X*-lock /tmp/.X11-unix

As long as it doesn't specify subdirectory wildcards (.../*) there
should be no problems with links to files outside of /tmp. 

-- 
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/
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