Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
Yeah, you'll notice that if you try to su to root and run installers
that run pkgadd internally. I use this method, and the StarOffice 8
installer failed quite mysteriously until I realized it was just an
instance of that problem and
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Peter Tribble peter.tribble at gmail.com wrote:
I regard this as unsafe and undesirable *as a default*. It clutters up
/tmp with unnecessary directories, wastes memory and involves
extra code at login. I have no problem with administrators or
users doing it if they
On 11/6/06, Darren J Moffat Darren.Moffat at sun.com wrote:
While it isn't particularly necessary on machines with small numbers of
users if you have every logged into a big Sun Ray machine you would have
an idea of just how cluttered /tmp can get with hundreds of users all
using the same
Mike Gerdts wrote:
On 11/6/06, Darren J Moffat Darren.Moffat at sun.com wrote:
While it isn't particularly necessary on machines with small numbers of
users if you have every logged into a big Sun Ray machine you would have
an idea of just how cluttered /tmp can get with hundreds of users all
Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote:
Yeah, you'll notice that if you try to su to root and run installers
that run pkgadd internally. I use this method, and the StarOffice 8
installer failed quite mysteriously until I realized it was just an
instance of that problem and reset TMPDIR to something
Peter Tribble wrote:
I regard this as unsafe and undesirable *as a default*. It clutters up
/tmp with unnecessary directories, wastes memory and involves
extra code at login. I have no problem with administrators or
users doing it if they want, but I see no advantage to having it as
the
I disagree. The flat layout in /tmp for all temporary files of all users
is very very annoying for both admins and users. I doubt mode 1777 is
insecure (yes, you can always craft a case where it goes wrong...).
Why? I hard ever look in /tmp.
OTOH, GNOME already dumps 3 or four temporary
Peter Tribble peter.tribble at gmail.com wrote:
I regard this as unsafe and undesirable *as a default*. It clutters up
/tmp with unnecessary directories, wastes memory and involves
extra code at login. I have no problem with administrators or
users doing it if they want, but I see no
