Re: Debian system modifications tmpfs

2010-09-24 Thread Rob Owens
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 02:22:01PM +0200, Peter Smith wrote: > On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors > wrote: > > Peter Smith writes: > >> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,mode=1777 0 0 > > > > noexec /tmp will surely break applications, no? > > So far no application

Re: Debian system modifications tmpfs

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Smith
On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > Peter Smith writes: >> tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,mode=1777 0 0 > > noexec /tmp will surely break applications, no? So far no applications have been malfunction as a result of the noexec flag on /tmp, but i guess t

Re: Debian system modifications tmpfs

2010-09-24 Thread Timo Juhani Lindfors
Peter Smith writes: > tmpfs /tmp tmpfs noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,mode=1777 0 0 noexec /tmp will surely break applications, no? > Iceweasel is modified to use /tmp as cache, so when Iceweasel is > loaded after a reboot it creates a folder named Cache in /tmp. How does this work with multiple u

Debian system modifications tmpfs

2010-09-24 Thread Peter Smith
I want to mount following folders as tmpfs in my Debian Lenny 5.0.6 installation: /var/cache/apt/archives /var/tmp /tmp I have added the following lines to fstab: tmpfs /var/cache/apt/archives tmpfs noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0 tmpfs /var/tmp tmpfs noatime,nodev,noexec,nosuid,mode=1