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Date:      Tue, 01 Oct 2002 22:39:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mikko_Ty=F6l=E4j=E4rvi?= <mbsd@pacbell.net>
To:        Socketd <db@traceroute.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /var/spool/uucppublic
Message-ID:  <20021001223044.M308-100000@atlas.home>
In-Reply-To: <20021001.23354600.696741805@rafter>

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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...



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