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Date:      Sat, 27 Jul 1996 19:13:13 +0200
From:      roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
To:        hoek@freenet.hamilton.on.ca (Tim Vanderhoek)
Cc:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch), hbarker@firepower.com (Harold Barker), bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /usr/tmp not writable in 2.1.5
Message-ID:  <199607271713.TAA03390@keltia.freenix.fr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960727093309.12023A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>; from Tim Vanderhoek on Jul 27, 1996 9:34:10 -0400
References:  	<Pine.SOL.3.91.960727093309.12023A-100000@james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca>

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According to Tim Vanderhoek:
> Is it (potentially) harmful to leave it writeable?  I've got /var/tmp 
> symlinked to /usr/tmp so I've made it writeable.

You should make the other way around. Temporary files are supposed to be in
either /tmp or  in /var/tmp. That's what   /var is for.  4.4BSD adopted the
more intelligent way of getting as much as possible out of /usr. 

/usr/tmp is a leftover from pre-4.4BSD and should die.
-- 
Ollivier ROBERT    -=- The daemon is FREE! -=-    roberto@keltia.freenix.fr
FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 2.2-CURRENT #16: Sun Jul 21 13:26:53 MET DST 1996



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