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Date:      Sun, 11 Mar 2001 00:33:23 -0500
From:      Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
To:        Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@poboxes.com>
Cc:        dan@langille.org, Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: where to put tmp files for security/logcheck
Message-ID:  <20010311003323.T45561@ohm.physics.purdue.edu>
In-Reply-To: <ofv8ril0.fsf@gits.dyndns.org>; from clefevre@poboxes.com on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:16:27AM %2B0100
References:  <200103110019.f2B0JAw02897@ns1.unixathome.org> <200103110154.f2B1sQw03743@ns1.unixathome.org> <ofv8ril0.fsf@gits.dyndns.org>

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On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:16:27AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> I'm against that. what's happen if /usr/local is nfs mounted. hugh!
> "local" temp files may clash w/ "local" files from other machines.
> IMHO, /var/tmp is the best place for temp files, even for ports.
>=20
> not all ports respect that. I'm thinking to cups in particulary.
>=20
> @dirrm var/log/cups
> @dirrm var/spool/cups/tmp
> @dirrm var/spool/cups
>=20
> should be /var/...

NO!  I will not have ports touching ANYTHING outside of ${PREFIX}!
PLEASE!  If anything, a new variable for tempish dir for packages should
be created.... but NOT this.

--=20
wca

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