From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 19:29:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yana.lemis.com (yana.lemis.com [192.109.197.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E7021566E for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 19:29:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: from mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (j13.ktb6.jaring.my [161.142.234.27]) by yana.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14022; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 13:58:42 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by mojave.worldwide.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA04913; Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:15:46 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from grog) Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 11:15:46 +0800 From: Greg Lehey To: Agent Drek Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/tmp /usr/tmp curiosity Message-ID: <20000125111546.E4775@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com on Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 12:08:36PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 24 January 2000 at 12:08:36 -0500, Agent Drek wrote: > 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? Yes. > Does /usr/tmp need to exist? No. It's not part of the standard distribution; I can't imagine where it came from if you didn't create it yourself. > I'm not sure if this was true from the original CD install and I > don't have a vanilla system lying around. I wouldn't expect so. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message