From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 18 09:35:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16998 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:35:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16992 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 09:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA26078; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:34:52 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id KAA25157; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:34:51 -0600 Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 10:34:51 -0600 Message-Id: <199809181634.KAA25157@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Eivind Eklund Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compiler temp files in /var/tmp?!? In-Reply-To: <19980918180324.23697@follo.net> References: <19980918180324.23697@follo.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Something (and I've not yet investigated closely what) is writing to > (or at least accessing) /var/tmp for each kernel source file[1] that > is compiled on my box. I quote from hier(7): > > /var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files > tmp/ temporary files that are kept between system reboots > > > I'm not able to find any reference to var/tmp in the gcc sources (and > I have none in my environment). Have you set TMPDIR to /var/tmp? Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message