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Date:      Tue, 11 Jan 2000 13:22:26 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Trond Endrestol <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
Cc:        FreeBSD stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Making sure /var/tmp/vi.recover exists during reboot 
Message-ID:  <9039.947589746@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:35:27 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001111128440.75103-100000@ramstind.gtf.ol.no> 

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On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:35:27 +0100, Trond Endrestol wrote:

> This is something you might want to put in /etc/rc in both -stable
> and -current.
>
> Scenario:
> 
> /tmp is MFS,
> /var/tmp, /usr/tmp and /usr/local/tmp are symlinks to /tmp,

Not until someone can explain how making /var/tmp a symlink to /tmp is
sensible, given that /var/tmp is documented as containing "temporary
files that are kept between system reboots" (see hier(7)).

So basically, no. :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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