From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 29 21:22:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27821 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 29 May 1997 21:22:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA27816 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 21:22:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Venus.mcs.net (font@Venus.mcs.net [192.160.127.92]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id XAA15043 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 23:22:45 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (font@localhost) by Venus.mcs.net (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id XAA05521 for ; Thu, 29 May 1997 23:22:44 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 29 May 1997 23:22:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Font To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2.2: Does /tmp get cleared, ever? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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.