x11 /tmp preparation rc.d script

Eric Anholt eta at lclark.edu
Mon Jan 10 10:36:01 PST 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 09:40 +0100, Jose M Rodriguez wrote:
> Jose M Rodriguez escribió:
> 
> > Eric Anholt escribió:
> >
> >> Attached are my proposed patches to deal with the X11 ICE issue.  To
> >> review, it's required because having .ICE not owned by root is a
> >> security issue, one that's been papered over with a printed warning and
> >> sleep(5) in libICE for years, and has recently been changed into an
> >> actual error by the X.Org folks.
> >>
> ...
> 
> As a latter think about this, consider take also periodic related fixes 
> (We clear this directories by default) and try to get a OS_VERSION bump 
> closest to this.

I'm sorry, I'm not sure what exactly you're talking about here.  Are you
saying that /etc/periodic contains something that will wipe out X's
files in /tmp?  That would be rather broken.

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Eric Anholt                                eta at lclark.edu          
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