In the past few batches of workunits sent by BURP to my Windows machine at home, I see a directory C:\\Home\\D2r2\\Dd120\\Temp-blender, containing a single frame of an .avi, and C:\\Render, which is empty. From the paths, you\'ll see that neither is within the BOINC directories I expect. These directories seem to be left behind regardless of whether the w/us complete successfully or not, and it appears that Blender and BURP both shut down properly. Are these directories a bug or a feature? I\'m running BOINC5.2.13 and the latest automatic download of BURP. Thanks.

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In the past few batches of workunits sent by BURP to my Windows machine at home, I see a directory C:\\Home\\D2r2\\Dd120\\Temp-blender, containing a single frame of an .avi, and C:\\Render, which is empty. From the paths, you\'ll see that neither is within the BOINC directories I expect. These directories seem to be left behind regardless of whether the w/us complete successfully or not, and it appears that Blender and BURP both shut down properly. Are these directories a bug or a feature? I\'m running BOINC5.2.13 and the latest automatic download of BURP. Thanks.

Bug obviously - was created with a recent malconfigured session.

In the past few batches of workunits sent by BURP to my Windows machine at home, I see a directory C:\\Home\\D2r2\\Dd120\\Temp-blender, containing a single frame of an .avi, and C:\\Render, which is empty. From the paths, you\'ll see that neither is within the BOINC directories I expect. These directories seem to be left behind regardless of whether the w/us complete successfully or not, and it appears that Blender and BURP both shut down properly. Are these directories a bug or a feature? I\'m running BOINC5.2.13 and the latest automatic download of BURP. Thanks.

Bug obviously - was created with a recent malconfigured session.

Is there a way to fix this within the BURP client, sandboxing any paths specified by the configuration? Otherwise, the ability for an arbitrary session to write files anywhere on my disk is a security hole, and one I don\'t want to leave open.

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Yes, BURP will use sandboxing techniques and does so already when people follow the instructions given on the \"How to prepare your file\". However, 2 things remain to be sandboxed properly: AVI render (since it should be disabled altogether and is considered incorrect use) and scripts.
What created the directories recently was a session with output set to AVI (which was directly against the \"rules\" layed out in the preparation document). As mentioned elsewhere I\'d like to add tests for this at some point. However this will have to wait untill the new Blender version is ready for BURP.

I found those two also. Render was on c:\\ and home was on d:\\. Now deleted by me.
Thanx Ben for pointing these out.
:)

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Win98SE XP2500+ Boinc v5.8.8

And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer.

I\'m still getting an empty directory called Render in my root directory. Can\'t say which session caused it.

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My render folder is back also. And I think I found another one that blender is creating called opt with subfolder queue which also has a subfolder called frames.

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Win98SE XP2500+ Boinc v5.8.8

And God said"Let there be light."But then the program crashed because he was trying to access the 'light' property of a NULL universe pointer.

My render folder is back also. And I think I found another one that blender is creating called opt with subfolder queue which also has a subfolder called frames.

Just checked, and I have both, too.

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PrimeGrid
Administrator

Ok, when the current sessions have finished I\'ll try to figure out where these directories are created since their paths should obviously be sandboxed.