Our gurus are on holiday. I’ll
try to fill in.
FFDC stands for “First Failure Data
Capture”. It’s taken more than twenty years to get the idea
universally into IBM code. The idea is that we store the information related
to a failure before the world falls apart and it will be easier to figure out
what went wrong.
I believe the directory is world writable
because NetView tasks need not be executed under the same ownership as the directory.
The directory would normally be owned by root since NetView is installed by
root and the primary NetView tasks are executed by root. Many tasks such
as SNMPWALK do not require root access but may fail. Any user who opens a
read-only map is probably operating under a non-root userid and should that
task fail we want to catch the problem determination data.
Bill
Evans
Tivoli
NetView support for DOE
Retired
IBM mainframe programmer
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
[mailto:owner-nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com] On
Behalf Of Philippe Menard
Sent: Monday, July
04, 2005 11:36 AM
To: nv-l@lists.us.ibm.com
Subject: [nv-l] Contents of
/usr/OV/PD/FFDC directory ?
All,
AIX
5.2, NetView 7.1.4 fixpack 3
The
Security Team is asking why some files in the /usr/OV/PD/FFDC directory are
world writable.
Does
anyone know the use of this directory ?
Cheers,
Philippe.