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Message-ID: <20040627230602.GA28498@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 03:06:02 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Stmpclean vs. tmpwatch
Hi,
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:01:12PM +0200, Maciek Pasternacki wrote:
> Are there any big advantages of stmpclean in comparison to more
> standard tmpwatch?
When I picked stmpclean, it appeared that tmpwatch was heading in the
wrong direction. Some newer versions of tmpwatch were essentially
fork bombs waiting to be triggered, -- but this has since been fixed
and now the latest tmpwatch doesn't look nearly as bad.
tmpwatch will remove root-owned files except for some taboo ones;
stmpclean won't remove root-owned files at all.
tmpwatch can optionally invoke fuser(1) on each file. This is an
added feature, -- but do you really want a fork-exec for each file,
with untrusted filenames passed via the command line? I don't want
to take responsibility for this feature and its poor implementation.
--
Alexander Peslyak <solar@...nwall.com>
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