On Thursday, Jun 14, 2001, Leif Madsen wrote:
I just installed Bastille, and everything seems to be good, except for this
message:
Message from my_log_on_name@local_machine on no tty at 21:03 ...
SECURITY ALERT: TMPDIR problem on host 'local_machine': The TMPDIR defense
script is no longer protecting TMPDIR on 'local_machine'. This is alright
if you are logging out of 'local_machine', otherwise you should restart the
defense script or log out and log back in.
EOF
Which loads anytime I go into a terminal window and exit out of it. How to
fix this?
Sounds like you're changing the TMPDIR environment variable to something
else other than ~/tmp. The script /etc/profile.d/tmpdir.sh (or .csh if
you're using csh) is what sets TMPDIR. I seem to remember an option if
you run InteractiveBastille where you can change that. But be warned,
it's very detailed. =)
The other thing is that when I shut down (reboot) Linux, then xinetd does
not shut down properly. It is fine on boot up and loads and runs fine, but
on reboot refuses to shutdown (big red X!) I can give you more information
if I knew where the boot/reboot/shutdown logs were located.
For xinetd, its logs are in /var/log/daemons/. Look in the files errors,
warnings, and info. For future reference, /var/log/syslog is the log of
everything in your system... but if you look around in /var/log, you'll
see that some things also log their activities in more specific
subdirectories. Makes things easier to find that way.
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