On Fri, 18 Mar 2005, Bob Alexander wrote:
> Is there some problem I cannot foresee scrapping my /tmp filesystem and
> symlinking /tmp to /var/tmp ?
/tmp is typically a partition ... and chmod 1777
/var/tmp is not typically a partition and maybe susceptible to something
that likes to count on that fact to exploit /tmp related problems
when /tmp gets full ..something (bad) could happen
when /var/{tmp} gets full.. lots of bad things will happen
c ya
alvin