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 > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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