From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 18 12:32:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4805616A41F for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:32:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org) Received: from orchid.homeunix.org (att36.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.27.1.36]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536A743D46 for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:32:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org) Received: from [192.168.1.66] (blackacidevil.orchid.homeunix.org [192.168.1.66]) (authenticated bits=0) by orchid.homeunix.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jAICWh9Y054763 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:32:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org) Message-ID: <437DC9DF.9020501@orchid.homeunix.org> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:32:31 +0100 From: Karol Kwiatkowski User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20051114) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eoghan References: <437DA3A1.4010700@redry.net> In-Reply-To: <437DA3A1.4010700@redry.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 OpenPGP: id=06E09309; url=http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig791E3C68FAF16BE67649B467" X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1178/Fri Nov 18 06:27:25 2005 on orchid.homeunix.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openoffice and var/ X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:32:59 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig791E3C68FAF16BE67649B467 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable eoghan wrote: > Hello > Ive tried a few time without success to install openoffice (from pkg an= d > port)... Problem is, when its building it writes lots of stuff to var/ > which isnt huge on my system... usually around about 250MB free. It > quickly fills this, then cant write to it anymore and eventually fails.= > So, is there any way to tell it to write to somewhere I have lots of > space, or will this just cause other problems using it? I guess what you're looking for is -t option for pkg_add(1): > -t template > Use template as the input to mktemp(3) when creating a ``s= taging > area''. By default, this is the string /var/tmp/instmp.XX= XXXX, > but it may be necessary to override it in the situation wh= ere > space in your /var/tmp directory is limited. Be sure to l= eave > some number of `X' characters for mktemp(3) to fill in wit= h a > unique ID. >=20 > You can get a performance boost by setting the staging are= a > template to reside on the same disk partition as target di= recto- > ries for package file installation; often this is /usr. FYI, I'm installing OOo 2.0 from a package right now and pkg_add requested about 380MB of temporary space. Cheers, Karol > Thanks > Eoghan --=20 Karol Kwiatkowski --------------enig791E3C68FAF16BE67649B467 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDfcnsezeoPAwGIYsRAo6qAJ9jjByizhsmQD2Y3tl+tLbcVOfaNgCfa52e ELU4wtDuOuLmzttduqSYWoc= =Sr+k -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig791E3C68FAF16BE67649B467--