netwatch symlink bug

From: George Sakhnovsky (promoat_private)
Date: Thu Jun 11 1998 - 10:00:42 PDT

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netwatch 0.7e (latest version on sunsite) creates a temp logfile,
/tmp/.watchlog.000, each time it's ran. it has no problem following
symlinks, so you can overwrite any file on the system. Just ln, and wait
for the admin to run it.

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