[6270] in bugtraq
Re: *sigh* another RH5 /tmp problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Tue Mar 10 14:11:42 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 09:22:15 -0500
Reply-To: Erik Troan <ewt@REDHAT.COM>
From: Erik Troan <ewt@REDHAT.COM>
X-To: "Mark A. Spencer" <mspencer@ENG.AUBURN.EDU>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.980309175457.19764B-100000@roadrunner.eng.auburn.edu>
On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Mark A. Spencer wrote:
> RedHat 5, when using dhcp to configure the interface calls a script
> called "ifdhcpc-done" to be executed after a dhcp interface is
> configured. At the end of the process it updates resolv.conf:
>
> if [ -f /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf ]; then
> echo "setting up resolv.conf" >> /tmp/dhcplog
> cp /etc/dhcpc/resolv.conf /etc
> fi
>
> There is no protection against the dhcplog file being a symbolic link,
> clobbering, blah de blah de blah... (it seems pretty useless to maintain
> it too, since this is the only message that ever seems to appear in the
> log).
This was an oversight on my fault. /tmp/dhcplog was a log file I was using
when originally implementing dhcp support in our scripts. I've fixed this,
and I'll have the update (initscripts-3.32) on our ftp site today.
Thanks for pointing this out Mark.
Erik
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