Bug #1594
closedUse /tmp instead of /var/tmp
Description
Hi,
In chunk.c: chunkqueue_get_append_tempfile, you use /var/tmp instead of /tmp to create temporary files by default. Is there a reason for this? As far as I know there's no need for those files to be preserved across reboots, so /tmp appears to be more appropriate to me.
See also http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=408521
Updated by stbuehler over 16 years ago
- Status changed from New to Fixed
- Resolution set to invalid
Many people mount a ramdisk in /tmp, and this is obviously not where we want to store temporary uploads; /var/tmp should never be a ramdisk (as its content is supposed to be preserverd across reboots), so it is ok.
It would be a good idea of course to have your initscript delete remaining tmp files after a crash.
Updated by admin about 16 years ago
- Status changed from Fixed to Need Feedback
- Resolution deleted (
invalid)
so it is ok.
Does the FHS say it's ok?
If people want /tmp to be a ramdisk, shouldn't they make sure to reconfigure daemons not to use it for large files?
Updated by darix about 16 years ago
- Status changed from Need Feedback to Fixed
- Resolution set to worksforme
as the debian bug has shown you can configure that already without changing any defaults of lighttpd.
Updated by admin about 16 years ago
Of course you can manually change it. I'm just asking for the default to be changed to the proper location.
Updated by jan about 16 years ago
The reason for using /var/tmp is that it is disk-based in 99% of the times while this is not the case for /tmp. Turning it around will only lead to bug-reports because lighttpd leads to swapping the whole system on large uploads if /tmp is on tmpfs.
The trade is swapping vs. disk-full on reboot.
Updated by stbuehler about 16 years ago
- Status changed from Fixed to Missing Feedback
Updated by gstrauss over 7 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
In lighttpd 1.4.40, you can set server.upload-dirs = ( "/tmp" ) to change the location used from the default "/var/tmp"
lighttpd 1.4.40 and later also do a better job cleaning up temp files (as long as lighttpd is not killed with kill -9 or kill -KILL)
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