Quick dumb question...

Bruce Dawson jbd at codemeta.com
Fri Aug 12 15:28:01 EDT 2005


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Mark Komarinski wrote:

| On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 02:18:28PM -0400, Brian Chabot wrote:
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|> How do you change the directory used for TMPDIR system wide?
|>
|> (It's Mandrake 10.0)
|>
|> I ask because the partition used by /tmp (the root filesystem...
|> don't ask.  It's an old legacy system) is filling up FAST on an
|> old machine.


|> Would it be easier to symlink /tmp to the desired location?
|>
|> You won't need to change TMPDIR.

Careful here; some systems won't boot if /tmp is a symlink. (Well,
more specifically, some of the init scripts will fail. This is
especially true for legacy (not Fedora Legacy) systems. Although I
seem to remember this was mostly corrected in some earlier Linux
(possibly as long ago as 1.0 kernel based systems, I do remember that
some distributions still had problems).

- --Bruce
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