From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 23 17:04:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA02875 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 17:04:11 -0800 Received: from fssrv.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de (fssrv.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de [129.187.176.20]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA02869 for ; Thu, 23 Mar 1995 17:04:06 -0800 Received: by fssrv.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de id AA00329 (5.67a8/IDA-1.5 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org); Thu, 23 Mar 1995 23:28:20 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 23:28:20 +0100 From: "Jan (Charly) Conrad" Message-Id: <199503232228.AA00329@fssrv.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: /tmp Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, i have a few question regarding the structure of /var and /tmp in 2.0-R (or BSD 4.4 in general): When installing from scratch 2.0-R comes up with drwxr-xr-x /tmp drwxrwxrwx /var/tmp In my opinion /tmp should be also drwxrwxrwx.... hier(8) says that /tmp ist for non permanet temps while /var/tmp ist for temps which should be kept between system reboots. That's ok but cc tends to use /var/tmp (I've not set TMPDIR or anything like that) Why?? Is ist possible to use mfs for tmp? mount(8) states something like mount -t mfs -o -N,-s=4000 /dev/sd0b /tmp (why the -N switch??) How large should /tmp be? Is mfs wortwhile on a machine with 8MB memory?? Is it stable?? thanx in advance Charly Jan (Charly) Conrad | e-mail: Jan.Conrad@Fachschaften.TU-Muenchen.DE Fachschaft Math/Phys/Info | Tel.: (089) 2105-2997 Studentische Vertretung | FAX: (089) 280 20 88 (via AStA) TU-Muenchen | (089) 2105-2996 (via FS Maschinenbau) 80290 Muenchen | Telex: 52 28 54 tumue d Germany |