From owner-freebsd-security Fri Jun 2 13:50:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from epsilon.lucida.qc.ca (epsilon.lucida.qc.ca [216.95.146.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE8D937B6E6 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:50:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET) Received: (qmail 10662 invoked by uid 1000); 2 Jun 2000 20:50:12 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 2 Jun 2000 20:50:12 -0000 Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:50:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Heckaman X-Sender: matt@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca To: Brett Glass Cc: Matthew Dillon , Mike Tancsa , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000602132507.00b2bbc0@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Rating: localhost 1.6.2 0/1000/N Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Brett Glass wrote: [...] : 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. I would like to see a system where it choose defaults based on two classes, we'll call them "workstation" and "server" for the purpose of this discussion. The defaults now are fairly decent for a workstation with the addition of /tmp mentioned herein. However, I've see alot of people new to FreeBSD get bit HARD by those defaults especially in any system that delivers e-mail to /var/mail. The default for /var is horribly low, I never did understand that myself. It would be nice to say "are you are server or workstation" and then spit out some better default variables based on the answer. : Has thought been given to changing this? If not, perhaps it should be : submitted as a PR. Not a bad idea at all. : --Brett Matt Heckaman matt@arpa.mail.net http://www.lucida.qc.ca -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.1 (FreeBSD) Comment: http://www.lucida.qc.ca/pgp iD8DBQE5OB4EdMMtMcA1U5ARAsYXAJ9X/IhwU5jmlwnOF5DjbemEb3qEmwCcCokq I7DlStGUalEC/VbXmH18jy4= =vGaf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message