Re: Good practice for /tmp

From: Jochem Kossen (j.kossen@home.nl)
Date: 09/04/01 

Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 23:49:58 +0200
From: Jochem Kossen <j.kossen@home.nl>
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>

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...

One more thing, I haven't tried sysinstall for the 4.4-RC builds, but
for 4.3-RELEASE, when you let sysinstall create the partitions
automatically, it uses way too less space for the /var partition
including the /var/tmp directory. (When using a 5 GB slice, it uses only
20 or 60 MB for /var). That should be changed is my opinion...

Hmm...Now i'm beginning to wonder what this has to do with security ;)

Jochem

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