From owner-freebsd-security Tue Sep 4 11: 1: 3 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from jochem.dyndns.org (cc40670-a.groni1.gr.nl.home.com [217.120.131.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4DF37B406 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 11:00:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jochem@localhost) by jochem.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) id f84I0sc37865 for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:00:54 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jochem) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 20:00:54 +0200 From: Jochem Kossen To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Message-ID: <20010904200054.A37836@jochem.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org References: <200109041105.f84B5dq06623@bsd.ist-ffo.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200109041105.f84B5dq06623@bsd.ist-ffo.de>; from griesche@bsd.ist-ffo.de on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:05:39PM +0200 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 On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:05:39PM +0200, 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 /. Yeah, but if you make /tmp too small, it will give problems with adding certain big packages like TeTeX. In that case, pkg_add needs a lot of space in the /var/tmp directory, although i don't understand the reason why they should use /var/tmp. Thus, I do link /var/tmp to /tmp. -- +-------------> FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE <-------------+ | Jochem Kossen jochem@jochem.dyndns.org | | 7:00PM up 3 days | +-------------> The Power To Serve <-------------+ Fortune cookie says: Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message