From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 6 5:10:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from vuurwerk.nl (envy.vuurwerk.nl [194.178.232.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4BC8B37B57D for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 05:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from petervd@vuurwerk.nl) Received: (qmail 83641 invoked from network); 6 Jun 2000 12:10:00 -0000 Received: from kesteren.vuurwerk.nl (HELO vuurwerk.nl) (194.178.232.59) by envy.vuurwerk.nl with SMTP; 6 Jun 2000 12:10:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 36670 invoked by uid 11109); 6 Jun 2000 12:10:00 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 14:10:00 +0200 From: Peter van Dijk To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSDDEATH.c.txt (mmap dirty page no check bug) Message-ID: <20000606141000.H36228@vuurwerk.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from andrew@scoop.co.nz on Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:38:37PM +1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jun 06, 2000 at 10:38:37PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote: [snip] > > Absence of /tmp is a pretty major oversight for any machine. Putting it > on the root partition is doubly so. If there's no sepsrate partition it > should at least be an alias to /var/tmp or something of the sort. To /usr/tmp, please, then. /var/tmp is designed to be not cleaned out on reboots. Greetz, Peter. -- petervd@vuurwerk.nl - Peter van Dijk [student:developer:madly in love] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message