Date: 07 Aug 2001 20:34:41 -0700 From: swear@aa.net (Gary W. Swearingen) To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: docs/29525: hier(7) has sometimes-erroneous descriptions of tmp dirs. Message-ID: <bz66bzteb2.6bz@localhost.localdomain>
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>Number: 29525 >Category: docs >Synopsis: hier(7) has sometimes-erroneous descriptions of tmp dirs. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Aug 07 20:40:01 PDT 2001 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Gary W. Swearingen >Release: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE i386 >Organization: none >Environment: n/a ================ >Description: The descriptions in hier(7) of /tmp and /var/tmp may lead users to make inefficient or dangerous-to-their-data usage of the directories. The descriptions state policies of tmp file deletion that are not in effect on many systems which don't bother to make a custom hier(7). ================ >How-To-Repeat: n/a ================ >Fix: Change the descriptions to say, in essence, that file deletion is at the system administrators' discretion/policy in both directories. It would probably be prudent to vet the changes with well-experienced SAs; I'm just an experienced user and home SA. patch -d "some man/man1" < this-PR *** /tmp/old-hier.7 Tue Aug 7 19:20:19 2001 --- hier.7 Tue Aug 7 19:51:36 2001 *************** *** 139,145 **** .It Pa /stand/ programs used in a standalone environment .It Pa /tmp/ ! temporary files .It Pa /usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications .Pp --- 139,148 ---- .It Pa /stand/ programs used in a standalone environment .It Pa /tmp/ ! temporary files; system administrators have differing policies about what ! temporary means; the traditional theory is that /tmp is emptied at system ! bootup and old or big files are deleted at the SA's discretion, but ! often the bootup-deletion is not done .It Pa /usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications .Pp *************** *** 718,724 **** .El .Pp .It Pa tmp/ ! temporary files that are kept between system reboots .Bl -tag -width Fl -compact .It Pa vi.recover/ the directory where recovery files are stored --- 721,730 ---- .El .Pp .It Pa tmp/ ! temporary files; system administrators have differing policies about what ! temporary means; the traditional theory is that /var/tmp is emptied only at ! the SA's discretion and not at every system bootup, but it is sometimes ! linked with the /tmp which is sometimes emptied at bootup .Bl -tag -width Fl -compact .It Pa vi.recover/ the directory where recovery files are stored >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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