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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Trond Endrestol <trond@ramstind.gtf.ol.no>
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Subject: Re: Making sure /var/tmp/vi.recover exists during reboot 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:35:27 +0100."
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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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