Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!seismo!uunet!spool.mu.edu!sdd.hp.com!ucsd!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!tpn+ From: tpn+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Tom Neuendorffer) Newsgroups: comp.soft-sys.andrew Subject: Re: Using /var/tmp (or any other directory) instead of /tmp Message-ID: Date: 6 Feb 91 19:44:03 GMT References: <9102061654.AA00375@chillon> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 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