On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 03:32:50PM +0100, Davide G. M. Salvetti wrote: > >>>>> BH == Ben Hutchings [2008-12-7] > > BH> I am uploading the following changes to delayed/3. > > Thanks Ben, > > I will let it in for the moment, due to the security implications. I > think I will revert to /tmp as soon as I have some more time to ponder > about it, which won't happen for at least two weeks. > > Please, if you think /var/log is better than /tmp on some other than > security related grounds, let me know.
You cannot reserve a name in /tmp across reboots, when all files there are removed. So every auctex update would need to generate a new log file name, and that would make the log file useless because the administrator wouldn't be able to find it. So the log file needs to be generated somewhere where unprivileged users cannot write, and the obvious place is /var/log. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Larkinson's Law: All laws are basically false. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
