From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 6 15:43:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from vuurwerk.nl (envy.vuurwerk.nl [194.178.232.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7DEC937B5B2 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 15:43:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petervd@vuurwerk.nl) Received: (qmail 88445 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2000 22:43:28 -0000 Received: from kesteren.vuurwerk.nl (HELO vuurwerk.nl) (194.178.232.59) by envy.vuurwerk.nl with SMTP; 6 Jun 2000 22:43:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 37594 invoked by uid 11109); 6 Jun 2000 22:43:28 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 00:43:28 +0200 From: Peter van Dijk To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) Message-ID: <20000607004328.F37217@vuurwerk.nl> References: <20000606141000.H36228@vuurwerk.nl> <200006061440.HAA93503@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200006061440.HAA93503@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:40:41AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 07:40:41AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:38:37PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: > :[snip] > :> > :> Absence of /tmp is a pretty major oversight for any machine. Putting it > :> on the root partition is doubly so. If there's no sepsrate partition it > :> should at least be an alias to /var/tmp or something of the sort. > : > :To /usr/tmp, please, then. > : > :/var/tmp is designed to be not cleaned out on reboots. > : > :Greetz, Peter. > > It should be /var/tmp. It's bad enough that some bozo created two > standard locations for temporary files (/tmp and /var/tmp), we don't > want to add a third. I agree wholeheartedly with you. I was, therefore, not giving an opinion, just interpreting man hier :) Greetz, Peter. -- petervd@vuurwerk.nl - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message