On 5/22/05, Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison at gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/22/05, Adrian Coman <adi.coman at gmail.com> wrote: > > and who should know this? > > my opinion is that there should be no need to execute anything from > > /tmp, from security reasons. > > > > This is not the first time I've seent his point discussed. Generally > the programs that require execution of something in /tmp have that > location as a tuneable parameter. I think > mailman/spamassasin/something was the last time I saw this. > Also not the first time I've heard this, but apparently some products (no time to google) as a standard distribution want to use /tmp for executables. Sad but true apparently. -- Collins Head teachers of the world unite: you have nothing to lose but the Start button.