From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Jul 26 9:46:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mail.yourfit.com (28.wxfr1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.150.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF0737BBAE for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:46:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@mail.yourfit.com) Received: from armani.yourfit.com (armani.yourfit.com [192.168.1.120]) by mail.yourfit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA23736 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:46:30 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:46:30 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some VMware progress. More questions (was Re: latest VMware port dumping core. ) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > [...problems with VMWare filling up /tmp...] > > Do not play around with symlinks for /tmp. One of the readme or > hints files talks about setting and exporting an environment variable > so that vmware will use a different directory than /tmp for it's > purposes. I created a simple shell which just sets that environment > variable, and then starts the real vmware. > > At the very least, /var/tmp is MEANT to be different than /tmp, and > thus I expect that you should not symlink the one to the other. _The Complete FreeBSD_ recommends symlinking /tmp to /usr/tmp, or some other such thing (e.g., its own partition). Do you foresee problemps with /tmp -> /usr/tmp? -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message