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Bugtraq archives for 1st quarter (Jan-Mar) 1998: Xconfigurator tmp files

Xconfigurator tmp files

Wojciech Bojdol (wojbojTAB-TRONIK.COM.PL)
Fri, 6 Feb 1998 07:59:46 +0100

When I run Xconfigurator yesterday I checked /tmp...
I saw, that it is making 2 type of tmp files
XF86Config.tmp and dumbconfig.1 (.2 or sometimes .3)
I maked link to another file:
ln -s somefileicreated XF6Config.tmp
ln -s anotherfile dumbconfig.1
and when I run Xconfigurator I saw that it overwrites this files
(somefileicreated and anotherfile).
I saw that it creates it only when it runs X -probe

So running Xconfigurator on multi-user system is dangerous...

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