Subject: Re: CRITICAL ** Holes in default cron jobs ** CRITICAL
To: Wailer <banshee@gabriella.abattoir.com>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 12/31/1996 07:55:11 
   So the upshot is that /tmp is not okay.
   
   Can the scripts use /var/run?

no, the idea is to create a directory under /tmp, and use that.