[17380] in bugtraq
Re: [ Hackerslab bug_paper ] HP-UX crontab temporary file
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Sommerfeld)
Thu Oct 26 21:31:01 2000
Message-Id: <20001026202815.92D302A2A@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:28:10 -0400
Reply-To: sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@ORCHARD.ARLINGTON.MA.US>
X-To: naif@inet.it
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
In-Reply-To: Message from "Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)" <fabio@TELEMAIL.IT> of
"Wed, 25 Oct 2000 12:30:47 +0200."
<Pine.LNX.4.21.0010251221420.7175-100000@naif.inet.it>
For what it's worth, I'm unable to reproduce this problem on NetBSD;
its crontab(1) program keeps the temporary file open while the editor
runs, and then does a rewind() on it to reread it from the beginning,
so it can't be confused into reading a different file if you delete,
rename, or replace the temporary file..
- Bill
