[plug] Deleted tmp, Broken X

[Steve Grasso]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2000, The Thought Assassin wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > Steve Grasso wrote:
> > > Hmmm...Having run short of disk space, I decided to live dangerously and
> > > shifted /tmp to another partition, sym linking to it from /
> > I would either make a separate partition for it or make a virtual disk
> > and mount that on /tmp. Symlinks aren't perfect.
> And for security reasons, most programs will not follow symlinks when
> writing temp files - what if a malicious user had created a file in /tmp
> that symlinks to some important file of yours? A program using that temp
> file would overwrite your important data. That is the major problem with
> symlinks, and the main reason they are not a perfect substitute.

Thanks guys. A virtual disk sounds like the better bet.

CU
Steve