From owner-freebsd-security Sat Feb 23 16:28:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4EBB37B417 for ; Sat, 23 Feb 2002 16:28:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 7FE165341; Sun, 24 Feb 2002 01:28:40 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Kris Kennaway Cc: bv@wjv.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Third /tmp location ? References: <20020223160159.GA59042@wjv.com> <20020223161754.B32157@xor.obsecurity.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 24 Feb 2002 01:28:39 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020223161754.B32157@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Kris Kennaway writes: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:58:33PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Bzzzt. FreeBSD has never had /usr/tmp, and all software that expects > > /usr/tmp has been changed to use /var/tmp instead. > Well, this isn't true. Check for yourself; BSD.usr.dist has never had a tmp entry. There may have been a time when it was created by sysinstall, but ISTR it was deprecated in 1997 or 1998 because it made it harder to mount /usr read-only. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message