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My $.02? However you slice it or dice it, ".SeCuRiTy" is a horrible
choice for a filename, only made worse by not documenting its existance
and function and by its placement.
--Steve
Johnson, Tony -Research wrote:
> In terms of historical usage of directories /var is the place for logging
> information, pids , spooler information, email and mail queue's, and
> /var/tmp for temporary files. Why not just statically use /var/tmp? /var
> seems to be the place for these things if they are not sizable. I am not ta
> big advocate of large / directories.
>
> I have to disagree with you about the home directroy issue. On Solaris / is
> root's home directory. You have to go out of your way to change that. When
> I manage Sun boxes, I never log into my systems as root. I log in as myself
> and use su only when I need to. The only reason to log in as root is
> because you have some catastrophic problem. If you are a good
> administrator, then you should not be having these anyway. There seems to
> me , in my mind , that there's no point in changing root's home dir.
>
> My .02 also
>
> Peace,
> Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Jay Manders [mailto:CJManders AT lbl DOT gov]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 11:52 AM
> To: Steven L. Sesar
> Cc: Donaldson, Mark; 'Matthew Williams';
> 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] .SeCuRiTy.n files in / on Solaris
>
>
>
> The pattern is consistent, at least. If you have to check out tape headers
> to
> assure they are NBU, using dd, you will see they have some TaPe HeAdEr (or
> some such) naming convention.
>
> Since we use /root has the home for root, such clutter never seems to make
> its
> way into / on our Solaris and Linux machines. If you have a non-/ root home
> you can then isolate such things that tend to be written to root's home from
> cluttering up the OS.
>
> Just my $.02
>
>
> Cheers!
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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>
>
> "Steven L. Sesar" wrote:
>
>
>>.....ok, then why not name them .NtFs.DaT
>>
>>Donaldson, Mark wrote:
>>
>>>It's also a pretty good way of assuring file name uniqueness to avoid
>>>clobbering a real file. It's unlikely any regular file would be
>>>strangely named like this.
>>>
>>>I have to admit to STRAnge.tmp.$$ filenames at times to be sure of
>>>this. EvErY other letter is a real bear to type, though...
>>>
>>>-M
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Matthew Williams [mailto:Matthew.Williams AT raba DOT com]
>>>Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:35 PM
>>>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] .SeCuRiTy.n files in / on Solaris
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Dig around in /tmp and /var/tmp .. this is by far not the only place
>>>that Netbackup uses these types of filenames. They have been doing it
>>>for quite awhile. Guess somebody's idea of internal humor. Just don't be
>>>alarmed.
>>>
>>>Matthew
>>>
>>>
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>>>Matthew Williams Raba Technologies
>>>Senior Consultant 8830 Stanford Blvd.
>>>Cell: (443) 994-7061 Suite 205
>>>Office: (410) 715-9399 Columbia, MD 21045
>>>
>>><snip for length>
>>>
>>--
>>===================================
>>
>>Steven L. Sesar
>>Ops. Sys. Programmer/Analyst, Sr.
>>Application Operations R10A
>>The MITRE Corporation
>>202 Burlington Road - R101
>>Bedford, MA 01730
>>tel: (781) 271-7702
>>fax: (781) 271-2600
>>email: ssesar AT mitre DOT org
>>mobile: (617) 893-9635
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