[comp.soft-sys.andrew] MS leaves some messages in /tmp...

wollman@GRIFFIN.UVM.EDU (Garrett Wollman) (03/09/91)

I have noticed that MS leaves copies of some outbound messages in /tmp,
instead of deleting them like it ought.  This seems to happen primarily
with address validation errors; perhaps someone forgot an unlink somewhere?
Or is this a feature?

-GAWollman
--

gk5g+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Gary Keim) (03/15/91)

Excerpts from internet.info-andrew: 8-Mar-91 MS leaves some messages in
.. Garrett Wollman@griffin. (257)

> I have noticed that MS leaves copies of some outbound messages in /tmp,
> instead of deleting them like it ought.  This seems to happen primarily
> with address validation errors; perhaps someone forgot an unlink somewhere?
> Or is this a feature?


If it is a feature it's dubious.  Privacy goes out the window on a
public workstation.  I have seen this behavior but I just had a
validation error and it didn't leave any garbage in /tmp.  If you can
come up with a reproducible case, then we can fix this up.

Gary Keim
ATK Group