From owner-freebsd-security Tue Sep 4 8:37:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE1637B401 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 08:37:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02423; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 09:37:06 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010904093613.052ceb20@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2001 09:36:45 -0600 To: Joachim Griesche , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Cc: griesche@bsd.ist-ffo.de In-Reply-To: <200109041105.f84B5dq06623@bsd.ist-ffo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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