> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Robert Seeberger
... > > Why was it trying to access a file in the /root/ directory? Parts of the system run as "root" and that's probably where that came from. But I don't think that little bit had anything to do with trying to run something in the /root directory. That message was flagged for moderation when it arrived, since it wasn't from a subscriber, and so it must have been mistakenly approved (Julia approved another message at the same time, so she probably didn't realize she was okaying both). There's an entry in the error log that says it contained unparseable text/html and so I suspect it replaced the unparseable part with the string that appeared in the body -- which is a Mailman bug, I suspect, so I'll look a bit harder at it and submit a bug report. > I dont know much about Linux, but I would expect this to be "a very bad > thing" if this is the beginning of a new trend. No threat to Linux. Even when you see "root" as operating something on *nixes, they're often run in a "chrooted" environment (or "chroot jail") which has its own mini version of the operating system. Nothing is allowed to touch anything outside of the jail. The greater threats are buffer overflows and such, where the access is totally unintentional. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
