[pmwiki-users] PmWiki work directory, re-revisited

[christian.ridderstrom at gmail.com]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> Lots of (most?) PmWiki administrators aren't familiar with Unix 
> conventions, such as var/ .  I'd like something that's going to be 
> quickly understood even by people who are unaware of the Unix meaning of 
> "var/".  (Even among Unix administrators I find a lot of people who 
> don't understand "var". :-)

Figures.  I still think it'd be good to emphasize that this particular 
directory might be better of in a separate partition, or in a directory 
with a quota.

>> Btw, wouldn't it be possible that a PmWiki creates some many, and big, 
>> pages that the partition gets full?  What would happen if I wrote a 
>> script that started creating pages at pmwiki.org? (Besides you being 
>> angry with me of course :-)
..
> The operating system is often less graceful about things when a 
> partition gets full.

It's the OS I'm worried about...  Doesn't this basically mean that a lot 
of hosts with PmWiki can be brought down quite easily?

/Christian

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