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Date:      Thu, 6 Sep 2001 10:43:59 +0100
From:      Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>
To:        Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>
Cc:        freebsd-security@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good practice for /tmp
Message-ID:  <20010906104359.E30676@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <20010906051207.O55388@hal9000.servehttp.com>; from A.J.Caines@halplant.com on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:12:07AM -0400
References:  <craig@allmaui.com> <20010904221809.B57312B@usul.nersc.gov> <20010905183015.A824@hades.hell.gr> <20010906094931.B30676@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20010906051207.O55388@hal9000.servehttp.com>

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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 05:12:07AM -0400, Andrew J Caines said:
> Ceri,
> 
> > > From: Eli Dart <dart@nersc.gov>
> > > Mount /tmp then as MFS with a limited size.  Works nicely, for me.
> > 
> > **boggle**
> 
> Not at all boggling. It's as simple as possible.
> 
> /dev/ad0s1b	/tmp	mfs	rw,async,noatime,-s=32768	0	0
> 
> > Swap mounted on an MFS /tmp ??
> > 
> > **shudder**
> 
> 
> What makes you uncomfortable?

In the lines you quoted ?  Nothing.

Having my swap partition mounted on a memory file system makes me
uncomfortable, which is why I quoted those parts of the previous posts.

Ceri

-- 
We've tried this God stuff long enough.  It's time for a change.

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