From owner-cvs-all Fri Dec 17 9:12:15 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3666014F84; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 09:12:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA13859; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:12:07 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA01346; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:12:06 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:12:06 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Bill Fumerola Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" , "Kenneth D. Merry" , Greg Lehey , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/sendmail/mail.local pathnames.h Message-ID: <19991217181206.B278@bitbox.follo.net> References: <199912171613.IAA29521@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from billf@chc-chimes.com on Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 11:28:42AM -0500 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 11:28:42AM -0500, Bill Fumerola wrote: > 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. From hier(7): /tmp/ temporary files, usually a mfs(8) memory-based filesystem (the contents of /tmp are usually NOT preserved across a system re- boot) /var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files tmp/ temporary files that are kept between system reboots vi.recover the directory where recovery files are stored Ie, /tmp and /var/tmp are not the same, and each should be used according to its purpose. If we have problems with defaults being wrong WRT size of each of these, we should fix the defaults, not write files the wrong place (assuming that the file in question is a true temporary file). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message