[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#791462: Bug#791462: aide-common: Please do not use /run for temporary log writing

[Marc Haber]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 11:02:19AM +0200, Bachsau wrote:
> last night my /run ran full because of long output written by aide. I
> think /run is not for that sort of things and $TMPBASE in the
> cron.daily script should default to /tmp/aide instead.

The fix is actually a bit harder since we would need to do some more
protection against a symlink attack in /tmp. But you surely have a
point, an unconfigured aide can create big output which does not have
a good place on a tmpfs.

Hannes, what do you think?

Greetings
Marc

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