The difference is his boss feels (emphasis on feels) safer.
On 01 Jun 2001 17:39:31 -0400, KeN ClarK wrote:
> So anycrack could write to it prior to it being 'moved' right? And then
> you have non-world-writeable data under the premise it is untampered.
> What's the difference?
>
> Ken
>
> On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Nichole Bialczyk wrote:
>
> > well, so the copy didn't work. it required me to place 'use File::Copy;'
> > in my script, but i got an error message.
> >
> > to be more specific, i want to do this: read and delete all of the lines
> > from a log file, except for the first one. i keep thinking grep, but
> > isn't that only a unix command? and it doesn't delete.
> >
> > basically, for anyuser to write to my logfile, it has to be world
> > writeable. but my boss doesn't like the possibility of someone tampering
> > with our data. unfortunately, we are restricted to afs and anyone could
> > write to that file. so here is the compromise:
> >
> > i am writing a script that will read and delete all of the lines, but the
> > first one, and copy the data into a file in a directory where there
> > aren't any write permissions. we are going to run this script every night
> > at 11:59 PM to gather the day's logfile.
> >
> > don't ask me, i just work here :)
> >
>
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