Bruce Perens writes ("Bug#3149: upgrading base truncates utmp"): ... > > What is /tmp/base.postinst for? > > The base disk creation script runs it. I think it may not be a security > problem because dpkg moves it out of the way before replacing it. > There may be a small race window there. Err, umm, wibble - does it really need to be in /tmp ? Ian.