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From: Adam Schrotenboer <adam@tabris.net>
To: Ryan Cumming <bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is /dev/shm needed?
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 19:17:34 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011217001735.D9D6BFB80D@tabris.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16Fkqc-0001Z0-00@DervishD.viadomus.com> <20011216234748.3EDE9FB80D@tabris.net> <E16Fl8j-0000nA-00@phalynx>
In-Reply-To: <E16Fl8j-0000nA-00@phalynx>

On Sunday 16 December 2001 18:56, Ryan Cumming wrote:
> On December 16, 2001 15:47, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
> > I may be wrong about /tmp as well, but I have come to think that it is
> > data that ought be discarded after logout, and have sometimes considered
> > writing a script for it in the login/logout scripts.
>
> System daemons can legally use /tmp, and they may not apprechiate having
> their files removed from underneath them everytime someone telnets in. ;)
Definite pt. So maybe make mortal users use $HOME/tmp. and that could be 
mounted at login and umounted at logout. Or, rm only the files that the user 
owns.
>
> -Ryan

-- 
tabris

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-17  0:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-16 23:37 Is /dev/shm needed? RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:47 ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-16 23:56   ` Ryan Cumming
2001-12-17  0:17     ` Adam Schrotenboer [this message]
2001-12-17  2:26     ` H. Peter Anvin
2001-12-17 15:50 ` Luigi Genoni
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-17  8:41 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-17  8:34 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-17  4:14 Jason Rivard
2001-12-16 23:36 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:15 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 23:12 ` Robert Love
2001-12-16 23:31   ` Pierfrancesco Caci
2001-12-17  8:36     ` ncw
2001-12-17  8:19 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-12-16 22:02 RaúlNúñez de Arenas Coronado
2001-12-16 22:30 ` Robert Love
2001-12-16 23:13   ` Adam Schrotenboer
2001-12-16 23:26     ` J Sloan
2001-12-16 23:27   ` Alexander Viro
2001-12-17  9:03     ` Jurgen Botz

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