Date: 24 Feb 2002 01:28:39 +0100 From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: bv@wjv.com, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Third /tmp location ? Message-ID: <xzp8z9jn2o8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <20020223161754.B32157@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <bulk.16556.20020223043936@hub.freebsd.org> <20020223160159.GA59042@wjv.com> <xzpofignf6e.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020223161754.B32157@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 08:58:33PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Bzzzt. FreeBSD has never had /usr/tmp, and all software that expects > > /usr/tmp has been changed to use /var/tmp instead. > Well, this isn't true. Check for yourself; BSD.usr.dist has never had a tmp entry. There may have been a time when it was created by sysinstall, but ISTR it was deprecated in 1997 or 1998 because it made it harder to mount /usr read-only. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message
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