On Sun Jan 21, 2001 at 05:03:35AM -0500, Dave wrote:

> The problem:
> Root gets daily message as follows (sorry, it's kind of long):
>
> Security Warning: World Writeable files found :
> - /home/sundance/.wprc/.wp8styles
> - /tmp
> - /tmp/.ICE-unix
[...]

This is just warning you that those files are world writable.
Typically, you shouldn't have so many world writable files, but it
looks like WP installed a lot. I don't know if it will break things
to make them user-writable only; it might.

This is basically a mechanism for you to see if any new world writable
files exist on your system. A new world writable file that isn't
installed by you should be a cause for concern. This list in and of
itself, isn't *too* bad.

> Security Warning: these home directory should not be owned by someone
> else or
> writeable :
> user=zope(104) : home directory is group writeable.

I haven't used Zope in a while, so I don't remember what the
appropriate permissions for the home directory should be. You might
have to leave this in order for it to work properly via apache, I
don't remember. If you don't use Zope do (rpm -qa|grep Zope) and
remove each Zope package.

> These are the ports listening on your machine :
> Active Internet connections (only servers)
> Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State

I believe someone else already commented on the servers and what you
can do to minimize the number of daemons waiting for connections.

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