deckel@relay.nswc.navy.mil (06/27/90)
We did a check on a few of our systems for all world-writable directories and the directories /etc/sm and /etc/sm.bak showed up. What are these for and do they really have to be world-writable? Debbie Eckel Naval Surface Warfare Center deckel@relay.nswc.navy.mil
mrsvr.starr@uwm.edu (Larry Starr,Mezzanine,46971,5638828) (06/29/90)
From article <9336@brazos.Rice.edu>, by deckel@relay.nswc.navy.mil: > We did a check on a few of our systems for all world-writable directories > and the directories /etc/sm and /etc/sm.bak showed up. What are these for > and do they really have to be world-writable? They are used by "rpc.statd" to store local status files. To the best of my knowledge the files are always stored with a size of zero and a name of "remote host name". They are used to reestablish locks "lockd(8)" across crash and recovery. I believe that the daemon(s) will create these directories if they do not exist on startup, but that may depend on the SunOS release you are running. They are mentioned in the man page "man statd". Hope this helps. Larry Starr MR Research Facility G.E. Medical Systems