Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 21:08:14 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, Sheldon Hearn <axl@iafrica.com>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xemacs installs world writable dir Message-ID: <199711071908.VAA18132@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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Chuck Robey wrote: > > > > Surely there must be some less religiously offensive way? > > > > Right. I'd go with /var/tmp/<portname>/ (at a quick guess). > > Well, at a minimum, then, couldn't it respect the user's TMPDIR variable? > I don't put my tmp stuff in the /, and I don't have a separate /var. I > set TMPDIR to /usr/tmp, which is large enough not to care. How does the app work? It may _need_ a common (hardwired) dir to put its locks in. Something that cannot be overridden by its users. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org
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