Robert Seeberger wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:42:11PM -0600, Julia Thompson wrote: > > > > > From: "Mortgage Clearing House" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > /root/8e8Ta4: Permission denied > > > > > Actually, it looks like a piece of spam that I thought I told the > > > server to discard (Nick, sometime check the log files and tell me if > > > I goofed in my congested and not entirely alert state) had something > > > other than my intent happen to it. > > > > Why was it trying to access a file in the /root/ directory?
No, just a subdirectory of the "current" directory on the web server, one would assume. > > > Now that I think about it, that is somewhat surprising. > Nicks server is Linux right? > Does it appear that the spam was trying to access a Linux directory? > There is no such file/directory system in windows, and I'm thinking the spam > had to be written specificly for Linux (or Unixclones) to have evoked this > response from the server. Well, two things: First, a little known secret about Windows: internally, "/" works just as well as "\" as a directory separator when determining a file path, it's always the application being run that does the enforement of "\" as a directory separator. Second, while that looks like a path starting from the root of the filesystem, webservers often have their own definition of "root directory" as far as any scripts or page links are concerned, in an effort to protect the server from malicious code. -- Matt _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
