Re: vmware bug?

From: Peter W (peterw@usa.net)
Date: 07/30/01 

Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:14:12 -0400
From: Peter W <peterw@usa.net>
To: starman jones <sj@balrog.neuropunks.org>
Subject: Re: vmware bug?
Message-ID: <20010730171412.I31193@usa.net>

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:57:48PM -0400, starman jones wrote:

> oi oi.. i recently installed vmware (the latest release of the workstation
> thing) and it crashed once or twice. But never mind that. in /tmp i found
> a file called vmware-log.starman. starman being my user on the box. Inside
> in this file is my license information and it's chmod is 777. That's kinda
> nasty don't ya think? has anyone seen similar things?

More than once we've discussed VMWare's need to have a safe TMPDIR environment
variable. Please set TMPDIR and post if there's still a problem.

BTW, both Bastille (http://www.bastille-linux.org/) and my personal Web
space (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/) offer TMPDIR scripts designed to mkae
safe directories and set the TMPDIR/TMP envirnment variables at login time.

-Peter