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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!mimbres.cs.unm.edu!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!lynx.unm.edu!nntp.sunbelt.net!udel!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!mimosa.astro.indiana.edu!pitts From: pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) Subject: Re: Does 'route flush' work? Message-ID: <CuqwCx.3I7@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> Sender: news@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: mimosa.astro.indiana.edu Organization: Indiana University References: <CuqIwJ.7MM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <jbrown.70.000DCBAF@umi.com> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 19:19:44 GMT Lines: 39 In article <jbrown.70.000DCBAF@umi.com>, Jim Brown <jbrown@umi.com> wrote: >In article <CuqIwJ.7MM@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) writes: >>From: pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu (Jim Pitts) >>Subject: Does 'route flush' work? >>Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 14:29:07 GMT > >>Hi, > >>I am running the 1.1.5.1 release of FreeBSD. I have just finished a neat >>series of scripts. My machine is connected to a host via uucp. There are >>also ppp dialup lines I have access to. When I want to get to my machine >>from work via ppp, I just uucp a file named 'startppp'. In 15 minutes >>the machine mails me a copy of the output of 'netstat -r' to tell me what >>IP number the ppp server assigned it. After I am done, I touch a file in the >>uucppublic directory called 'stopppp' and within 10 minutes the connection is >>terminated with the machine going back to ppp. > >>I want to flush the routing table after all this is done. Trouble is that >>the command 'route flush' does not seem to do anything. > > >You have to be root to use the route add/delete/flush commands. >You will have to modify your script to run setuid root (<--A SECURITY HOLE) >or write a wrapper C program to call route that you can make setuid root. > [snip] Yes, of course. I realize this. When I type 'route flush' when logged in as root, nothing happens to the routing table (as per netstat -r). That is how I know it is not working (at least for me). Thanks for the attention, however. -- - pitts@mimosa.astro.indiana.edu ^ | James J. Pitts - - Most people are cattle. In every /@\ | IU Physics Dept - - generation, a few leaders are born. / \ | Voice: 812-855-8247 - - I am such a leader. /_____\ | FAX : 812-855-5533 -