From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jan 24 20:21:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monsterbymistake.com (bunny.monsterbymistake.com [205.207.163.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAE4715384 for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 20:21:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drek@MonsterByMistake.Com) Received: from bunny.monsterbymistake.com([205.207.163.17]) (1337 bytes) by mail.monsterbymistake.com via sendmail with P:esmtp/R:bind_hosts/T:smtp (sender: ) id for ; Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:22:13 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.107 1999-Sep-8 #1 built 1999-Sep-11) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 23:22:11 -0500 (EST) From: Agent Drek To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /var/tmp /usr/tmp curiosity In-Reply-To: <20000125111546.E4775@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG |> Is this something that is just not done automagically? | |Yes. | good news indeed. |> 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 have been told that a port at some point could have created /usr/tmp for whatever reason it thought was good. I will investigate and report back if I find such evil. I know that I did not create the dir myself because I can't remember off the top of my head how to chmod a 'tmp' directory and this one had the correct permissions. Where did that man page go ... -- -ly y'rs, Agent Drek 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