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Date:      Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:54:29 -0500
From:      "William Wong" <willwong@anime.ca>
To:        "Agent Drek" <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: /var/tmp /usr/tmp curiosity
Message-ID:  <003601bf6694$1007c1c0$0300a8c0@anime.ca>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001241155590.67783-100000@bunny.monsterbymistake.com>

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On my 3.4R system, during a vanilla install /usr/tmp doesn't even exist.  I
forget what creates it.  However it's just a normal dir.

- Will

----- Original Message -----
From: "Agent Drek" <drek@MonsterByMistake.Com>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 12:08 PM
Subject: /var/tmp /usr/tmp curiosity


> 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
>
>
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