tpn+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Neuendorffer) (02/07/91)
Excerpts from mail: 6-Feb-91 Using /var/tmp (or any othe.. Jeff Putsch@uunet.UU.NET (712) > ... how do I get Andrew to use /var/tmp for > it's temporary files (or preferably and environment variable TMPDIR)? Well, first the bad news. The idea that /tmp/is a good place for tmp files is indeed distributed throughout ATK, and nothing short of making /tmp a link to a reasonably sized filesystem is going to solve all potential problems. The good news is that, as long as people are not changing things like their *.formatcommand in there preference files (including references to /tmp), you should be able to fix printing by just changing the references to /tmp in (SRC)/atk/support/print.c. As long as you are not building the system on these machines, I don't know of any other module that puts files of any great size in /tmp, though that's not a guarantee that they don't exist. Good luck, Tom Tom Neuendorffer (tpn@andrew.cmu.edu) Information Technology Center Carnegie Mellon University 4910 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, Pa. 15213-3890 Phone: (412) 268-6108 Fax: (412) 268-6787