Quick dumb question...

[Brian Chabot]

Bruce Dawson wrote:

> 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).

Is there a way to specify on boot the new location?  Like...

linux RMPDIR=/home/tmp

...or something like that?


Brian

PS: Linking /tmp to /home/tmp seems to be working.... so far.  New 
hardware is on its way, but no ETA.