From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 3 06:22:16 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12571 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 06:22:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mercury.webnology.com (mercury.webnology.com [209.155.51.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12491 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 06:22:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jooji@webnology.com) Received: from localhost (jooji@localhost) by mercury.webnology.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id IAA11381; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:22:18 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 08:22:18 -0600 (CST) From: "Jasper O'Malley" To: peter kok cc: Evren Yurtesen , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: why does /tmp world writable? In-Reply-To: <36B80F5C.8998A8@sweda.com.hk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, peter kok wrote: > do i change the tmp directory to 1777 (chmod tmp 1777)? The /tmp directory already is mode 1777 by default. > then, could the system page me 'filled up'? Nope. You'd have to set up a paging system yourself, if that's something you wanted to do. My main point was just that you should be watching your systems one way or another. Cheers, Mick The Reverend Jasper P. O'Malley dotdot:jooji@webnology.com Systems Administrator ringring:asktheadmiral Webnology, LLC woowoo:http://www.webnology.com/~jooji To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message