kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) (08/20/90)
My / partition has about 1.5 megs available on it..any reason why I shouldn't redirect /tmp to /usr/tmp (which in turn goes to /var/tmp on my Sun) with a symbolic link, so that there'll never be problems w/ storage? Will anything die if /tmp is a link? Thanks.. Brendan Kehoe | Soon: brendan@cs.widener.edu For now: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu | Or: bkehoe@widener.bitnet
meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) (08/20/90)
In article <28623@netnews.upenn.edu> kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes: | My / partition has about 1.5 megs available on it..any reason why I shouldn't | redirect /tmp to /usr/tmp (which in turn goes to /var/tmp on my Sun) with a | symbolic link, so that there'll never be problems w/ storage? Will anything | die if /tmp is a link? | Thanks.. Some (all?) versions of cp use lstat instead of stat to determine if the last argument is a directory, and fail if /tmp is a symlink. -- Michael Meissner email: meissner@osf.org phone: 617-621-8861 Open Software Foundation, 11 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA, 02142 Do apple growers tell their kids money doesn't grow on bushes?
kaul@icarus.eng.ohio-state.edu (Rich Kaul) (08/20/90)
In article <MEISSNER.90Aug20102144@osf.osf.org> meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) writes:
Some (all?) versions of cp use lstat instead of stat to determine if
the last argument is a directory, and fail if /tmp is a symlink.
Some. We run a Sun 3/180 running SunOS 3.5 with /tmp symlinked to
another disk without problems.
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