From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jun 3 11:24:32 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from obie.softweyr.com (obie.softweyr.com [204.68.178.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15E2437B7C3 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from softweyr.com (Foolstrustident!@homer.softweyr.com [204.68.178.39]) by obie.softweyr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA11658; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 12:24:15 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Message-ID: <39394E2E.3706C561@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 12:27:58 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Heckaman Cc: Brett Glass , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Matt Heckaman wrote: > > -----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. Actually the defaults are ridiculous in the days of 6GB disks being hard to find. I use 128MB root and var partitions on small laptops. I do think it would be of value to ask quite early in the installation if this is intended to be a workstation or server configuration and suggest different defaults for such things throughout the install. As always, we await your patches. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message