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Date:      Sat, 23 Feb 2002 16:40:35 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, bv@wjv.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Third /tmp location ?
Message-ID:  <20020223164034.A32672@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzp8z9jn2o8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:28:39AM %2B0100
References:  <bulk.16556.20020223043936@hub.freebsd.org> <20020223160159.GA59042@wjv.com> <xzpofignf6e.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020223161754.B32157@xor.obsecurity.org> <xzp8z9jn2o8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:28:39AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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.
>=20
> 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.

I'm not disputing that part, but your second assertion.  There have
already been examples posted showing where this is false (and it's
already been agreed that they should be fixed).

Kris

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