--- sysstat-7.0.4/sysstat.in.cve3852	2007-08-15 15:15:04.000000000 +0200
+++ sysstat-7.0.4/sysstat.in	2007-08-15 15:17:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,13 +20,11 @@
 
 RETVAL=0
 HISTORY=0
-TMPDIR=/var/run/ 
-# Remove flag indicating that sadc was successfully launched
-rm -f ${TMPDIR}sysstat.run
 
 # See how we were called.
 case "$1" in
   start)
+	exitCodeIndicator="$(mktemp /tmp/sysstat-XXXXXX)" || exit 1
 	[ -r /etc/sysconfig/sysstat ] && . /etc/sysconfig/sysstat
 	if [ ${HISTORY} -gt 28 ]
 	then
@@ -43,15 +41,15 @@ case "$1" in
 		CHOWN ${CURRENTDIR} ${CURRENTFILE} ${CURRENTDIR}/${CURRENTFILE}
 	fi
         echo -n "Calling the system activity data collector (sadc): "
-        SU SA_LIB_DIR/sadc -F -L - && touch ${TMPDIR}sysstat.run QUOTE
+        SU SA_LIB_DIR/sadc -F -L - || rm -f ${exitCodeIndicator} QUOTE
 
 	# Try to guess if sadc was successfully launched. The difficulty
 	# here is that the exit code is lost when the above command is
 	# run via "su foo -c ..."
-	if [ ! -f ${TMPDIR}sysstat.run ]; then
-		RETVAL=1
+	if [ -f "${exitCodeIndicator}" ]; then
+		rm -f ${exitCodeIndicator}
 	else
-		rm -f ${TMPDIR}sysstat.run 
+		RETVAL=1
 	fi
         echo
         ;;