From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Jul 27 10:21:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA21881 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 10:21:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA21837 for ; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 10:21:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id TAA27946; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 19:21:29 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id TAA02205; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 19:21:05 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id SAA01801; Sat, 27 Jul 1996 18:53:16 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199607271653.SAA01801@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /usr/tmp not writable in 2.1.5 To: hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek) Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 18:53:15 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hbarker@firepower.com, bugs@FreeBSD.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from Tim Vanderhoek at "Jul 27, 96 09:34:10 am" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > /usr/tmp is not supposed to be writeable, it's not even supposed to > > Is it (potentially) harmful to leave it writeable? No, except that only broken (non-conforming) software would assume /usr/tmp exists at all. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)