Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 23:22:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Font <font@Mcs.Net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.2: Does /tmp get cleared, ever? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970529231724.4371A-100000@Venus.mcs.net>
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After installing 2.2.2 on a machine, and rebooting several times, I
started to notice that /tmp was filling up a little (I only have 64M ea
for / and /var), and after examining /etc, found that periodic /tmp
cleaning and cleaning on reboot were not present or disabled, apparently
due to security concerns.
1. Is it correct to say that no cleaning of /tmp is done by default?
2. Is there a "reasonably secure" method of activating such cleaning?
For point 2., what is the original security problem? Is it having special
characters in filenames? Would a cleaning script which ignored files
which contained whitespace in their names be an improvement?
A bug in my MUA causes news.announce.newusers font
to be sent to beneficiaries and senders of UCE/SPAM. @
mcs.net
Wishes are like dishes.
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