From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 1 22:39:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9978637B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:39:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 260D043E6A for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 22:39:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbsd@pacbell.net) Received: from atlas ([64.166.23.65]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0H3C00FC5ADJRO@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Oct 2002 22:39:19 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 22:39:19 -0700 (PDT) From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= Subject: Re: /var/spool/uucppublic In-reply-to: <20021001.23354600.696741805@rafter> X-X-Sender: mikko@atlas.home To: Socketd Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20021001223044.M308-100000@atlas.home> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 1 Oct 2002, Socketd wrote: > Hi all > > The above dir is world writeable, so I just want to know if it is > installed as part of the base system and that program/process uses that > dir? Can I mount it as no-exec and no-suid? It is part of the system and used by UUCP. As you do not seem to know what uucp is, I'd say it is highly likely that you are not running uucp. Just delete the directory. And keep deleting it after every new upgrade, install or "make world", until uucp finally is divorced from the base system, causing grief for all of the three people still alive using uucp... ;-). Hmm.. looks like that will happen in 5.0. Whee. $.02, /Mikko P.S, My first email address was a UUCP address, with a "!" and all... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message