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post #11 of 21
7/20/12 at 3:54pm
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Oh I agree, it's why I use testing/unstable in my sources. That way I don't have to mess with it. Unfortunately I get in the mood to play around with every DE known to man just to see why I don't use them. =P Then I get all mucked up with services from hell, I just find it easier to go clean. That and I've noticed orphaned packages have a tendency not to be removed correctly, you get annoyed real quick with 100 orphaned packages showing up in apt-get install every time. I could manually weed them out but......
can you not just apt-get remove them? (excuse the n00bie question here - I don't use Debian a whole lot)
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I don't do them often, but when I do... sorry, felt perfect.
But more seriously, it also helps my 3 distro's on here be all on the same drives. 1 Unified boot partition, 1 Unified home partition, separate root partitions for each. I don't really change them all that much as I'm usually always on Arch or FreeBSD, but it's nice to know my files/configs will all be unified throughout if I do decide to boot into my gentoo or debian installs, lol.
Ahhh good point. I hadn't thought about multiple install scenarios.
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post #12 of 21
7/20/12 at 5:00pm
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can you not just apt-get remove them? (excuse the n00bie question here - I don't use Debian a whole lot)
Ahhh good point. I hadn't thought about multiple install scenarios.

The DEs, yeah, but then I have to remove the libs too, which isn't exactly easy. The orphans? There is an auto-remove for orphaned files but don't trust it, there is a thing with flagging orphaned files improperly. I don't know if its better, just have had problems with it starting to remove things like oh I don't know xorg for example. I've had auto-removal decide to make my current DE unusable, don't quite trust it. Either way, I can set up XFCE with a net install in like 30 min. I don't usually do a full install that often though, recently it's just been that I've tested a lot of distros out.
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post #13 of 21
7/24/12 at 5:56am
Back to the OP, when I install a home/test Linux instance, I typically just create a "/" and swap partition. When it's a server, I usually assign 1GB to /tmp and make it it's own partition. The reason being is that with most distro's, /tmp has rwx for all users. There are other tmp directories you can look at, but I was personally burned once with /tmp in a SUSE/SLES PDC/BDC scenario and ever since have been locking down that partition.

Mission critical is no joke. For home installs, it's definitely your call. You'll be fine with just the root and swap partitions.
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post #14 of 21
7/24/12 at 6:31am
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Back to the OP, when I install a home/test Linux instance, I typically just create a "/" and swap partition. When it's a server, I usually assign 1GB to /tmp and make it it's own partition. The reason being is that with most distro's, /tmp has rwx for all users. There are other tmp directories you can look at, but I was personally burned once with /tmp in a SUSE/SLES PDC/BDC scenario and ever since have been locking down that partition.
Mission critical is no joke. For home installs, it's definitely your call. You'll be fine with just the root and swap partitions.
You said you were burned before, what happened?
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post #15 of 21
7/24/12 at 11:46am
Yeah I've never had a problem with /tmp being read/write. I've actually never seen any major issue with that, haven't herd about any security problems unless they were the fault of a program. Temp itself shouldn't ever be the fault of any issues.
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post #16 of 21
7/24/12 at 5:49pm
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You said you were burned before, what happened?

I think it was a hung Samba process that was dumping logs to that folder. It was a unique circumstance and it happened quite awhile ago. The hard disks were not very big and it filled up very quickly. Eventually users started complaining and I had to bounce the domain controller in mid day.

As for /tmp security, just Google it. Other people have their reasons. I wouldn't call it critical, but just something I like to do. For my home stuff, I don't care. But, for production "set it and forget it" type of servers, you want to take precautions.
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post #17 of 21
7/24/12 at 6:06pm
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I think it was a hung Samba process that was dumping logs to that folder. It was a unique circumstance and it happened quite awhile ago. The hard disks were not very big and it filled up very quickly. Eventually users started complaining and I had to bounce the domain controller in mid day.
As for /tmp security, just Google it. Other people have their reasons. I wouldn't call it critical, but just something I like to do. For my home stuff, I don't care. But, for production "set it and forget it" type of servers, you want to take precautions.

Ahh, a log error could be pretty dirty in a situation like that. =S That would make things a bit more problematic, even without security risks. lol
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post #18 of 21
7/24/12 at 7:42pm
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Ahh, a log error could be pretty dirty in a situation like that. =S That would make things a bit more problematic, even without security risks. lol

Logrotate is also a thing of beauty! lol
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7/24/12 at 7:51pm
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Logrotate is also a thing of beauty! lol

Well I guess you use that more often now? hehe
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post #20 of 21
7/24/12 at 11:54pm
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I don't to it often either, lol. I had to get rid of a severely broken XP install, and there where no disks or recovery partitions, so I just went Linux.
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