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- Path: sparky!uunet!auspex-gw!guy
- From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: ex/vi's tmp directory.
- Message-ID: <14118@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 18:45:47 GMT
- References: <1992Aug18.085605.16032@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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- >how does 1 change the "tmp" directory that ex/vci uses?
-
- set directory=<some other directory>
-
- in your ".exrc" file.
-
- >I have a sun4 system that miraculously started using
- >"/var/tmp" [which only root has write access to]
-
- Find out whoever's responsible for making "/var/tmp" writable only by
- "root", and fix it/them. It's supposed to be publicly-writable!
-
- The reason why "ex"/"vi" uses "/var/tmp" is that people often mount
- "tmpfs" on "/tmp", which means "/tmp" goes away if the system is shut
- down, so that you lose "expreserve".
-