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Re: vmware bug?
From: Peter W <peterw () usa net>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:14:12 -0400
On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 03:57:48PM -0400, starman jones wrote:
oi oi.. i recently installed vmware (the latest release of the workstation thing) and it crashed once or twice. But never mind that. in /tmp i found a file called vmware-log.starman. starman being my user on the box. Inside in this file is my license information and it's chmod is 777. That's kinda nasty don't ya think? has anyone seen similar things?
More than once we've discussed VMWare's need to have a safe TMPDIR environment variable. Please set TMPDIR and post if there's still a problem. BTW, both Bastille (http://www.bastille-linux.org/) and my personal Web space (http://www.tux.org/~peterw/) offer TMPDIR scripts designed to mkae safe directories and set the TMPDIR/TMP envirnment variables at login time. -Peter
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