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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!phys.ksu.edu!rjq
  2. From: rjq@phys.ksu.edu (Rob Quinn)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
  4. Subject: Putting /tmp in /usr (was Re: Can f77 be taught not to use /tmp?)
  5. Date: 24 Jan 1993 02:40:16 GMT
  6. Organization: Kansas State University
  7. Lines: 22
  8. Message-ID: <1jsvihINNfe5@moe.ksu.ksu.edu>
  9. References: <1993Jan20.185627.19507@mapsut.einstein.com> <447@ftms.UUCP>
  10. NNTP-Posting-Host: bohr.phys.ksu.edu
  11.  
  12. In <447@ftms.UUCP> brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
  13. [talking about making f77 use something other than a small /tmp]
  14. >While this isn't a perfect solution, all of our systems have been reconfigured
  15. >so that none of the temp space is in / (root).  Sun's brilliant idea of
  16. >providing temp directories in a filesystem that is way too small is rediculous
  17. >So, the following is done:
  18. >    rm -r /tmp /var/tmp /usr/tmp
  19. >    mkdir /usr/tmp
  20. >    chmod 777 /usr/tmp
  21. >    ln -s /usr/tmp /tmp
  22. >    ln -s /usr/tmp /var/tmp
  23.  
  24.  It's very common to share /usr between machines. Won't your method cause
  25. a lot of problems? I thought the whole idea behind /usr was that it would
  26. contain files that never (rarely) changed, and that didn't need to be tailored
  27. to each host. Host specific files go in / or /var.
  28.  Also, I would suggest a 'chmod +t' on your temp directories.
  29.  
  30. --
  31. |                                                                   Rob Quinn |
  32. |                                                            rjq@phys.ksu.edu |
  33. |                                                       QuinnBob@KSUVM.BITNET |
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