Quick dumb question...

[Bruce Dawson]

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Brian Chabot wrote:

| Steven W. Orr wrote:
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|> On Friday, Aug 12th 2005 at 14:18 -0400, quoth Brian Chabot:
|>
|> =>How do you change the directory used for TMPDIR system wide?
|>
|>
|
|> Use the TMPDIR environment variable. Most things (especially
|> things that you write) will honor it.
|>
|
| That was my question..... How does one do this to take effect
| system wide?  I can do it per user, but I ned to do it for the
| whole system.
|
| Brian

Put it in /etc/profile or /etc/profile.d/local or /etc/bashrc or
whatever is appropriate for your distribution/system. Don't forget the
equivalent files for those users who use csh.

- --Bruce
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