On Tue, 2024-07-30 at 09:12 +0000, Christian Bricart wrote: > just my 2¢ here and sorry if I might have overlookt a rationale earlier > > why moving nginx's temp dir to "generic purpose" /var/tmp/… and not keeping > it at /var/lib/nginx/tmp/* ?
TLDR: Because /var/tmp is designated for temporary files, unlike /var/lib. The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS)[1] describes /var/tmp as a directory storing "temporary files preserved between reboots"[2], which is much closer to our purpose of storing temporary NGINX files. Conversely, /var/lib stores persistent information (databases, etc.), not temporary files. Note: While FHS is not an authoritative standard for Gentoo, it is a good set of sensible guidelines for a software packager. [1]: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/index.html [2]: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch05s15.html > Especially, when there even is/would be a tmpfiles entry taking care of it's > existence and ownership. > > Christian > > Am 29.07.24 um 23:52 schrieb Zurab Kvachadze: > > This places the burden on creating and cleaning /var/tmp/nginx in > > world-writable /var/tmp on systemd-tmpfiles(8). > > > > Signed-off-by: Zurab Kvachadze <zurabid2...@gmail.com> > > --- > > www-servers/nginx/files/nginx.tmpfiles | 2 ++ > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) > > create mode 100644 www-servers/nginx/files/nginx.tmpfiles > > > > diff --git a/www-servers/nginx/files/nginx.tmpfiles > > b/www-servers/nginx/files/nginx.tmpfiles > > new file mode 100644 > > index 000000000000..af9cdd26973f > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/www-servers/nginx/files/nginx.tmpfiles > > @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ > > +D /var/tmp/nginx 0755 root root > > +x /var/tmp/nginx
