[18452] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.15: apparent xcb machine hang
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Fri Oct 20 16:40:38 2000
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
Cc: Alex Coventry <alex_c@mit.edu>, bugs@mit.edu, ocschwar@mit.edu
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 20 Oct 2000 16:40:33 -0400
In-Reply-To: John Hawkinson's message of "Fri, 20 Oct 2000 14:26:25 -0400"
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<jhawk@MIT.EDU> (John Hawkinson) writes:
> While it might initially seem that removing your session_gate_pid
> file might be problematic, in reality, the above command should
> do basicly nothing on most Athena workstations since /tmp is a symlink
> and you don't specify -follow. e.g.:
In case it isn't obvious, adding -follow is a really bad idea; I could
make you [Alex] blow your locker away by putting a symlink to
/mit/alex_c in /tmp on a machine you're logged in to. Changing /tmp
to /tmp/. should do what you want, though.
--
Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
