Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!paperboy!meissner From: meissner@osf.org (Michael Meissner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: ln -s /var/tmp /tmp Message-ID: Date: 20 Aug 90 14:21:44 GMT References: <28623@netnews.upenn.edu> Sender: news@OSF.ORG Distribution: usa Organization: Open Software Foundation Lines: 16 In-reply-to: kehoe@scotty.dccs.upenn.edu's message of 19 Aug 90 20:24:18 GMT 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?