Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:25:55 -0800 From: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav), Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> Cc: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: grops eats disk Message-ID: <199802251725.JAA28263@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> In-Reply-To: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) "Re: grops eats disk" (Feb 25, 6:20pm)
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On Feb 25, 6:20pm, Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav wrote: } Subject: Re: grops eats disk } Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> 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
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