On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:57:48PM -0400, starman jones wrote: > oi oi.. i recently installed vmware (the latest release of the workstation > thing) and it crashed once or twice. But never mind that. in /tmp i found > a file called vmware-log.starman. starman being my user on the box. Inside > in this file is my license information and it's chmod is 777. That's kinda > nasty don't ya think? has anyone seen similar things? More than once we've discussed VMWare's need to have a safe TMPDIR environment variable. Please set TMPDIR and post if there's still a problem. BTW, both Bastille (http://www.bastille-linux.org/) and my personal Web space (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/) offer TMPDIR scripts designed to mkae safe directories and set the TMPDIR/TMP envirnment variables at login time. -Peter
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