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From: envbvs@epb2.lbl.gov (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: /tmp
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Date: 9 Jun 89 21:01:31 GMT
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In article <10390@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
> In article <5712@lynx.UUCP> m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) writes:
> >What bad bad things happen if I symbolically link /tmp to /usr/tmp?
> 
> As you suggested later, the main thing to worry about is that /tmp
> is probably required before the /usr filesystem is mounted.

We haven't had any problem with our /tmp directory sym-linked to
/usr/tmp.from.root (as we call it).  It doesn't seem that it is needed
during booting.

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Brian V. Smith    (bvsmith@lbl.gov)
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
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