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Subject: Re: where to put tmp files for security/logcheck
In-Reply-To: <20010311003323.T45561@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> from "Will Andrews" at "Mar 11, 1 00:33:23 am"
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Will Andrews writes:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 06:16:27AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote:
> > I'm against that. what's happen if /usr/local is nfs mounted. hugh!
> > "local" temp files may clash w/ "local" files from other machines.
> > IMHO, /var/tmp is the best place for temp files, even for ports.
> > 
> > not all ports respect that. I'm thinking to cups in particulary.
> > 
> > @dirrm var/log/cups
> > @dirrm var/spool/cups/tmp
> > @dirrm var/spool/cups
> > 
> > should be /var/...
> 
> NO!  I will not have ports touching ANYTHING outside of ${PREFIX}!
> PLEASE!  If anything, a new variable for tempish dir for packages should
> be created.... but NOT this.

/usr often used in read only manner
(multiple computers with /usr -ro mounted from nfs server
or multiple jails with /usr -ro mounted from host computer.
/usr/local/tmp is the worst place IMHO.

What about using of ${TMPDIR} environment variable?
And /usr/bin/mkinittmpdir (PR bin/18275) proposed to use
in script initialization to establish ${TMPDIR}
in some proper way.


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