On Nov 8, 2007 9:33 AM, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 11:20 -0500, Ivan Krstić wrote: > > > > > A tiny size restriction is pretty new. > > Heh. You are way too young.... > > The presumption has always been you'd better keep things in /tmp pretty > small; that's why the distinction between /tmp and /var/tmp was made. > It allowed people to use RAM file systems for speed long before it would > have otherwise been feasible. > - Jim
Yes.. about 17 years ago when I got into the business (and that makes me a kid).. the first job of every jr sysadmin was to write a cleanup script that worked better than the last cleanup script. It ran every hour in /tmp and cleaned up anything older than an hour and anything over 1 MB that had been around for 15 minutes.. and we still ran out of /tmp 1 or 2 a week. In the end, the question does breaking /tmp gain anything in security on a system where the primary user is one person at a time, and the malware writers still have access to the home directory. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel