Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 18:39:20 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr> To: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Message-ID: <20010905183920.A1095@hades.hell.gr> In-Reply-To: <20010904234958.A487@jochem.dyndns.org>; from j.kossen@home.nl on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:49:58PM %2B0200 References: <200109041105.f84B5dq06623@bsd.ist-ffo.de> <20010904200054.A37836@jochem.dyndns.org> <200109041842.f84Igj693873@earth.backplane.com> <20010904234958.A487@jochem.dyndns.org>
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From: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl> Subject: Re: Good practice for /tmp Date: Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:49:58PM +0200 > On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 11:42:45AM -0700, Matt Dillon wrote: > > 'man tuning' (with a recent -stable). In it I talk about /tmp vs > > /var/tmp and why it doesn't make sense to keep them separate any more. > > And these days people generally do not rm -rf /tmp at boot either. > > Maybe in future releases, the /var/tmp directory/partition or the /tmp > directory/partition could be removed? Unfortunately, according to the > FHS they both need to exist... Then, they can not be removed. Not until the FHS allows it :-) They will either be removed, or changes incompatible with the FHS be avoided at all costs. One of the beautiful things of FreeBSD is the well-known and standard places where things are. It is very nice to know what to expect and where to find it. I think that breaking this is a terrible idea. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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