At 12:59 PM +0100 11/13/01, Volker Borchert wrote:

>  /tmp is (at least, should be; I'm pretty sure since mounting a tmpfs
>  on /var/tmp/.X11-unix wouldn't help if it wasn't; anyway, I'll verify
>  that tonight) a symlink to /var/tmp (mentioned only in my first post).

	Symlinking /tmp to /var/tmp is a really bad idea, especially 
if /var is a separate filesystem.  Imagine what happens if a program 
needs to create a temporary file during single-user mode, before /var 
is mounted.

	Besides, many programs expect that /tmp will be cleared on 
reboot, while /var/tmp will not be.  Making them one and the same 
(however you do it) would violate the POLA.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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