Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 22:38:37 +1200 (NZST) From: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> To: Matt Heckaman <matt@ARPA.MAIL.NET> Cc: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.ca>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000606222934.9047A-100000@aurora.scoop.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006021647100.10651-100000@epsilon.lucida.qc.ca>
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On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, 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. Perhaps more to the point, there should be a little more information available at the time about what the implications of the options are. A 'server' option built for a machine where lots of users have shell accounts and mail (big /var and /tmp) is going to be quite inappropriate for a typical dedicated webserver. Absence of /tmp is a pretty major oversight for any machine. Putting it on the root partition is doubly so. If there's no sepsrate partition it should at least be an alias to /var/tmp or something of the sort. -- Andrew McNaughton andrew@squiz.co.nz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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