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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: Third /tmp location ?
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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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