Thanks, Brian. Mine only has the "rw". Before I run those commands you
send, can I expect any other difficulties from doing so? I don't want my
site to experience problems that I might not have thought of.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian N. Smith [mailto:brian (at mark) nuonce.net]
> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 6:15 PM
> To: coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
> Subject: [coba-e:06809] Re: /TMP Directory
>
> > just want to make sure the /TMP security is enabled where files
> > can't be run
> > there. While I don't think the DDOS attack was successful in
> > running the
> > script, it was successful in shutting down the serer due to MySQL
> > becoming
>
> [root@bq1 ~]# mount | grep "/tmp"
> /dev/md2 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid)
>
> If your output looks like mine, your good. Your looking for
>
> (rw,noexec,nosuid)
>
> If it isn't there, you can do this;
>
> # Remount /tmp to be non-executable!
> /usr/bin/perl -pi -e "if (/\/tmp/) { s/defaults/noexec,nosuid,rw/ }"
> /etc/fstab
> /bin/mount -o remount /tmp
>
> Thanks!
> Brian