Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 13:39:58 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dynamic symlink? Message-ID: <20051010183958.GH44754@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20051010182035.GA693@uk.tiscali.com> References: <20051010182035.GA693@uk.tiscali.com>
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In the last episode (Oct 10), Brian Candler said: > Are there any clever tricks you can do such that a filesystem access > to /tmp is transparently redirected to /home/<user>/tmp ? > > (Reason: Web server cluster. Many scripts expect to be able to store > session data in /tmp. Don't want to have a free-for-all NFS mount for > /tmp) > > Something which looks like a symlink with a dynamic target depending > on the uid of the person who reads it is the sort of thing I'm > looking for. You could probably use amd's hlfsd to do this, or make sure that $TMPDIR is set correctly before launching the script, and force everyone to use $TMPDIR instead of hardcoding /tmp in their scripts. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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