From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 8 13: 4:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6438237B422 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 13:04:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f48K4mB00520; Tue, 8 May 2001 16:04:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105082004.f48K4mB00520@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Adam Blake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, tyler@wapvi.bc.ca Subject: Re: pkg_add and -t option In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 May 2001 15:44:58 EDT." From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 16:04:48 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG adam admitted > I've been having lots of problems with the pkg_add command. I am running out of space > on /var/tmp where pkg_add likes to use as a "staging" area while it downloads. The man > page says that if you use the -t option you can specify that it download to another > location such as /usr/tmp/instmp.XXXXXX and it will download all it needs there. I keep > doing this and pkg_add continues to download to /var/tmp and overflow the directory!!! > Can anybody out there help please? I can't tell you about -t, but you could mv /var/tmp /var/tmp.save ln -s /usr/tmp /var/tmp rm /var/tmp mv /var/tmp.save /var/tmp hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message