From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 25 09:26:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29020 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:26:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (root@gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com [207.113.159.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA28917 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:26:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (root@sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.191]) by gatekeeper.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA00822; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:25:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gdonl@tsc.tdk.com) Received: from salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com [192.168.241.194]) by sunrise.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA23941; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:25:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gdonl@localhost) by salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA28263; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:25:55 -0800 (PST) From: Don Lewis Message-Id: <199802251725.JAA28263@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:25:55 -0800 In-Reply-To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) "Re: grops eats disk" (Feb 25, 6:20pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 alpha(3) 7/19/95) To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav), Don Lewis Subject: Re: grops eats disk Cc: John Fieber , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Feb 25, 6:20pm, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: } Subject: Re: grops eats disk } Don Lewis writes: } > On Feb 25, 5:29pm, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: } > } # echo 'TMPDIR=/usr/tmp ; export TMPDIR' >> /etc/profile } > } } > } IMHO this should be in FreeBSD's default /etc/profile. } > } > Not for those of us who use a nice big MFS partition for /tmp and don't } > want our /var/tmp clogged up with files that can be safely disposed of } > by a reboot. I want to save room in /var/tmp for things that should } > be preserved across reboots, like editor temporaries. } } I wrote /usr/tmp, not /var/tmp. Wouldn't work for me. news: {1362} ls -l /usr/tmp ls: /usr/tmp: No such file or directory news: {1363} df /usr Filesystem 512-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/sd0s1f 196958 166260 14942 92% /usr I'm also allergic to having world writeable directories in the same partition as setuid executables or even any executables. I prefer to have world writeable directories mounted nodev,noexec. --- Truck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message