Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 20:42:28 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where to put tmp files for security/logcheck Message-ID: <20010310204228.M45561@ohm.physics.purdue.edu> In-Reply-To: <200103110019.f2B0JAw02897@ns1.unixathome.org>; from dan@langille.org on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:19:08PM %2B1300 References: <200103110019.f2B0JAw02897@ns1.unixathome.org>
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:19:08PM +1300, Dan Langille wrote:
> It's come to my attention (thanks Mr Fenner) that security/logcheck=20
> creates /usr/local/etc/tmp for its own use but does not remove that=20
> directory when the port is deleted.
>=20
> 1 - I'm not so such I like the idea of a port creating such a directory. =
=20
> Why can't it just use /var/tmp like everyone else? This would also=20
> remove the need to create/remove a tmp directory.
>=20
> 2 - If I modify the port so it just removes /usr/local/etc/tmp when=20
> pkg_delete is called, what's the downside? Still, I don't like the idea =
of=20
> creating directories just for tmp files.
>=20
> 3 - I've msg'd the author off-list to see what he thinks of this change.
Blah. etc/tmp is wrong. hier(7) says:
/usr/ contains the majority of user utilities and applications
[...]
local/ local executables, libraries, etc. Also used as the
default destination for the FreeBSD ports framework.
Within local/, the general layout sketched out by
hier(7) for /usr should be used.
[...]
/var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
[...]
tmp/ temporary files that are kept between system reboo=
ts
IMO, /usr/local (${PREFIX} here) should be extended to include ${PREFIX}/va=
r.
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wca
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