segmantation fault

[crichey at gmail.com (Collins Richey)]

On 5/22/05, Greg Knaddison <greg.knaddison@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/22/05, Adrian Coman <adi.coman@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

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