On Wed, 10 Apr 1996, der Mouse wrote:

> But dumping those files into /var/tmp - indeed, even having /var/tmp on
> /var at all - has one major lose: it means that any person, or runaway
> program, can run you flat out of space on /var.

They can do that by sending e-mail or syslog messages, anyway, so
I don't see how moving /tmp off var helps much.

cjs

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