From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 9: 8:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monsterbymistake.com (monsterbymistake.com [205.207.163.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8F1B1520E for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 09:08:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com) Received: from bunny.monsterbymistake.com([205.207.163.17]) (1545 bytes) by mail.monsterbymistake.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:08:36 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.107 1999-Sep-8 #1 built 1999-Sep-11) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:08:36 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: /var/tmp /usr/tmp curiosity Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Seems that after cvsup'ing and doing 'make world' both /var/tmp and /usr/tmp are different ... in other OS's I've dealt with /usr/tmp was a sym-link to /var/tmp Is this something that is just not done automagically? Does /usr/tmp need to exist? I'm not sure if this was true from the original CD install and I don't have a vanilla system lying around. this is what I expected: [drek@jazz] ~ % ls -ld /usr/tmp lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 14 1999 /usr/tmp -> ../var/tmp/ [drek@jazz] ~ % this is what I got: [drek@bunny] ~ % ls -ld /usr/tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 512 Nov 30 12:25 /usr/tmp/ [drek@bunny] ~ % ls -ld /var/tmp/ drwxrwxrwt 3 root wheel 512 Jan 19 11:50 /var/tmp/ [drek@bunny] ~ % this is not a problem at all it just tripped me up because I moved /var/tmp to a different filesystem and some progs' seemed to be using /usr/tmp still which I had assumed was a symlink ... never-assume-anything-you-make-an-ass-out-of-u-and-me-ly, derek -- Monster By Mistake Inc > 'digital plumber' http://www.interlog.com/~drek To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message