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Date:      Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:25:47 -0300
From:      Fernando Schapachnik <fschapachnik@vianetworks.com.ar>
To:        Alex Holst <a@area51.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: good practice for /tmp
Message-ID:  <20010904082547.A42334@ns1.via-net-works.net.ar>
In-Reply-To: <20010904124134.C58690@area51.dk>; from a@area51.dk on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 12:41:34PM %2B0200
References:  <F217wAddX47sFoai8XK00004d23@hotmail.com> <20010904124134.C58690@area51.dk>

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En un mensaje anterior, Alex Holst escribió:
> Quoting Magdalinin Kirill (bsdforumen@hotmail.com):
> > is it a good practice to mount /tmp/ on it's own partition, symlink /var/tmp 
> > to it and turn on quotas on that partition
> 
> It is, and it lets you supply mount options for /tmp (e.g. NOSUID, NOEXEC,
> etc) and whatever else you want to do.

Just a note: /var/tmp is supossed to be kept between reboots (see
hier man page), and /tmp is not. So keep this in mind. You might want
to turn off /tmp cleans at reboot.

Regards.


Fernando P. Schapachnik
Planificación de red y tecnología
VIA NET.WORKS ARGENTINA S.A.
fschapachnik@vianetworks.com.ar
Tel.: (54-11) 4323-3381

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