From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 13 14:21:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA24941 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:21:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA24931 for ; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA24673 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 23:20:54 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA06229; Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:56:35 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19970413225633.GJ54491@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 22:56:33 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: on the subject of changes to -RELEASEs... References: <16569.860942772@time.cdrom.com> <199704132050.NAA23522@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199704132050.NAA23522@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Jonathan M. Bresler on Apr 13, 1997 13:50:17 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > > But you remember that shell here documents use (hidden) tempfiles, > > > thus require a writable /tmp? > > > > Heh heh, I just knew there was a fly in the ointment here somewhere! ;-) > > > > mfs, mfs ,mfs That's not an universal solution you can count on inside /etc/rc. Using MFS or not using it is a policy decision. I've got machines where i wanna make sure that /tmp is preserved across reboots. Yes, i know that this is not the common policy, but establishing a script that would effectively prevent /tmp being a real disk filesystem would take away part of the freedom the local admin otherwise has. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)