From owner-cvs-all Fri Dec 17 10: 4:55 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 446E515712; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:04:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id KAA63687; Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:04:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:04:51 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199912171804.KAA63687@apollo.backplane.com> To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Bill Fumerola , "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 References: <199912171613.IAA29521@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <19991217181206.B278@bitbox.follo.net> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk :> > 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. This doesn't work well in practice. So many programs write their temporary files to one or the other without regard to their purpose that in every single UNIX installation I've *ever* done, I've made /var/tmp relatively large and made /tmp a softlink to /var/tmp. Doing anything else just wastes disk space. -Matt Matthew Dillon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message