[chef] Re: Re: using /var/chef/tmp instead of /tmp as a workspace for recipes

[AJ Christensen < >]

I mirror Ranjib Dey's feedback -- we use the :file_cache_path for
similar purposes

--AJ

On 14 June 2012 18:05, Ranjib Dey 
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> i prefer to use the Chef::Config[:file_cache_path] (which usually points to
> /var/chef/cache) for similar use cases
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> On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Bryan Berry 
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>  wrote:
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>> It came to my attention this morning that some admins mount the /tmp with
>> the noexec flag
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>> The java::oracle recipe downloads the oracle jdk*.bin file to the tmp
>> directory and executes it there. The result is an unpacked jdk directory
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>> Would it be useful for me to use a new directory like /var/chef/tmp
>> instead of /tmp for this kind of thing?
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