On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 08:50 -0600, Greg Knaddison wrote:
On 5/22/05, Adrian Coman adi.coman@gmail.com wrote:
and who should know this? my opinion is that there should be no need to execute anything from /tmp, from security reasons.
This is not the first time I've seent his point discussed. Generally the programs that require execution of something in /tmp have that location as a tuneable parameter. I think mailman/spamassasin/something was the last time I saw this.
Greg
Lots of things require executing tmp files ... though you might be able to change it to /var/tmp ... for example
(as Greg said, by changing a config file)
This is an upstream issue ... and I saw some stuff in the redhat bugzilla about some programs that have this issue, xmms is not one of the ones listed though.
We don't normally fix issues like this in CentOS ... because we are supposed to track upstream programs _exactly_ ... including their bugs.
If you want to fix it and maintain your own package, I'll try to help :)
OR ... make an entry in the RH bugzilla for RHEL4 and xmms