P. Victor Novarese writes:> This .tgz file contains a shell script called "runme" which
contains the
[snip]
> It is possible that this is just to conduct a little research
> into who is running quake and on what hardware, but I''m sure
> there are more than a few sysadmins who don''t want this
> information leaving their sites.
>From README.intel_linux (which lives next to "runme" on our
system):
The runme program is a shell script which will send a letter to Crack
dot Com with statistics about your computer so that we may learn more
about the Linux market. Please run it only once. Do not run it again
even if you get a new version of the game. We need this data to make
our next game run well on your machine. It sends information from
your /proc directory telling us about your devices, your CPU, your
memory, etc. It is a shell script, and you may inspect and edit it
if you feel it violates security.
Hopefully folks are still reading "README" files...
[mod: There are a lot of messages coming in pointing this out. Please
stop :-) -- REW]
-Scott