Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:36:45 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Joachim Griesche <griesche@bsd.ist-ffo.de>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: griesche@bsd.ist-ffo.de Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20010904093613.052ceb20@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200109041105.f84B5dq06623@bsd.ist-ffo.de>
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Who's maintaining /stand/sysinstall these days? This should be part of the default install. --Brett At 05:05 AM 9/4/2001, Joachim Griesche wrote: >Hello! > >Although putting /tmp on its own partition is helpful, I >prefer not to symlink /var/tmp to /tmp because /tmp and >/var/tmp are handled in a different manner by most systems: >While /tmp is cleared at boot time, /var/tmp is not (see >the file /etc/rc and the comments where), preserving >recovery files. If /tmp is not on its own partition, I >create /usr/tmp and symlink /tmp to /usr/tmp in order to >avoid filling of /. > >With best regards >Joachim Griesche > >System administrator >Institut fuer Solartechnologien GmbH >Frankfurt (Oder), Germany > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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