Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:07:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Message-ID: <200109042207.f84M72T95653@earth.backplane.com> References: <200109041105.f84B5dq06623@bsd.ist-ffo.de> <20010904200054.A37836@jochem.dyndns.org> <200109041842.f84Igj693873@earth.backplane.com> <20010904234958.A487@jochem.dyndns.org>
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: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...
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: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
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