From owner-cvs-all Fri Dec 17 8:29: 7 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A4BD14D91; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 08:29:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 260951C2B; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:28:42 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2161A381B; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:28:42 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 11:28:42 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: "Kenneth D. Merry" , Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/sendmail/mail.local pathnames.h In-Reply-To: <199912171613.IAA29521@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > I don't mean to start another babbling war on -committers, but wouldn't > > this break POLA, since most applications set TMPDIR to /tmp by default? > > I also don't see how using /var/tmp vs /tmp is going to help these lusers, > they usually only have a / and /usr, which puts /var/tmp on the same > partition as /tmp which is going to cause the same error under the > same conditions. No. Since our defaults have a (larger) /var, they'll normally have a non-root partition /var/tmp. The root parition certainly shouldn't be used as a place to buffer mail. -- - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message