RE: [UUG/MLUG] odd file

["Buford, Rick" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

that's part of what made me a little nervous about that. I am going thru the
Tripwire docs now =)

Rick Buford
Chief Clerk
Medical Records - Transcription
DC042.06 / 884-7452
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   |-----Original Message-----
   |From: Jonathan King [mailto:EMAIL:PROTECTED]
   |Sent: Friday, December 03, 1999 12:41 PM
   |To: EMAIL:PROTECTED
   |Subject: Re: [UUG/MLUG] odd file
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   |On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Mike Miller wrote:
   |
   |> On Fri, 3 Dec 1999, Blake C. Lewis wrote:
   |
   |[about removing a weird file in /]
   | 
   |> > If you use rm -- *tat* it will remove it. 
   |> 
   |> Just be sure to precede that command with this:
   |> 
   |> ls *tat*
   |> 
   |> to be sure you aren't deleting things you don't want to delete!
   |
   |Aw, gee: where's the fun in that? :-)  I mean, has anybody 
   |ever told 
   |you an amusing story about how they correctly and safely deleted
   |something dorky without nuking important stuff?  Didn't think so...
   |
   |But on a related note, weird files in the root directory, 
   |unless you know
   |it was your screwup while root that caused them, can be red flags to
   |activities that are less than savory...in particular, somebody else
   |screwing up while doing things as root.
   |
   |jking
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