Steve \"Stevers!\" Coile
1997-Mar-24 11:33 UTC
Re: [linux-alert] More sendmail problems... Partition your disks!
[Mod: redirected to linux-security --alex] On Mon, 24 Mar 1997, Alexander O. Yuriev wrote:>This is yet-another reason to _partition_ your disks. Of course hard links >do not work accross filesystems. Even thought it is a pain in the neck to do >when installing your operating system, think about separating critical >system files from non-critical and non-system files from system files. I >would say that the following layout is a good place to start:[...]> /tmp (nosuid,noexec,nodev) > /var (nosuid,noexec,nodev)Red Hat Linux, at least, won''t like this, as the Red Hat Package Manager, "rpm", builds scripts in and attempts to execute scripts out of /tmp. =( -- Steve Coile P a t r i o t N e t Systems Engineering scoile@patriot.net Patriot Computer Group (703) 277-7737