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Subject: Re: ZFS & make install with exec=no in /tmp
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Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote:
> Hello hackers, 
> 
> 	I was wondering if there is a work around for this... 
> 
> 	In 8.0-current I have installed the new version of ZFS and upgraded the 
> filing systems to 13. I had a thought that I would make a zfs for /tmp and set 
> the exec to no (thinking that nothing should ever be executed in the tmp). All 
> seemed to work ok, however, I ran into a problem when I was installing a new 
> world. The script immediately bombed out with a permission denied message. 
> 
> 	I remembered seeing that type of message before when I was testing the no-
> exec bit in /tmp before, so I reset it to 'yes' and all is well and installed 
> fine.. 
> 
> 	Is there any way to specify what directory is used for building and executing 
> the install scripts? 

The standard UNIX way is to set the TMPDIR env variable.

Kris