Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 13:26:57 -0600 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20000602132507.00b2bbc0@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200006021608.JAA47864@apollo.backplane.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20000602093923.0309ed60@marble.sentex.ca>
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At 10:08 AM 6/2/2000, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I put quotas on every partition users had access to at BEST, including > /tmp (100MB quota). In fact, /tmp turned out to be the single most > important partition to put a quota on due to the sheer number of > programs that just assumed it would never fill up (and the sheer number > of bozo users who would use /tmp to unpack warez and never delete any > of it). An interesting related point: By default, the current sysinstall doesn't create a separate /tmp. It leaves /tmp as a directory in the rather small root partition. An action as simple as downloading a large file via Lynx (which downloads to /tmp and then moves files to a destination) is enough to overflow the root partition. Has thought been given to changing this? If not, perhaps it should be submitted as a PR. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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