From owner-freebsd-security Tue Sep 4 15: 7: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E131F37B401 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:07:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) id f84M72T95653; Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:07:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:07:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200109042207.f84M72T95653@earth.backplane.com> To: Jochem Kossen Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp References: <200109041105.f84B5dq06623@bsd.ist-ffo.de> <20010904200054.A37836@jochem.dyndns.org> <200109041842.f84Igj693873@earth.backplane.com> <20010904234958.A487@jochem.dyndns.org> 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 11:42:45AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: :> 'man tuning' (with a recent -stable). In it I talk about /tmp vs :> /var/tmp and why it doesn't make sense to keep them separate any more. :> And these days people generally do not rm -rf /tmp at boot either. : :Maybe in future releases, the /var/tmp directory/partition or the /tmp :directory/partition could be removed? Unfortunately, according to the :FHS they both need to exist... : :One more thing, I haven't tried sysinstall for the 4.4-RC builds, but :for 4.3-RELEASE, when you let sysinstall create the partitions :automatically, it uses way too less space for the /var partition :including the /var/tmp directory. (When using a 5 GB slice, it uses only :20 or 60 MB for /var). That should be changed is my opinion... : :Hmm...Now i'm beginning to wonder what this has to do with security ;) : :Jochem This was brought up a few months ago. It can be fixed, but it's too close to release to make it into this release. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message