On Thursday, August 29, 2002, at 11:42 AM, Janine Sisk wrote: > We have an installation of nsd 3.2+ad12, which I would like to configure > to > use an alternate location for it's temp files. /tmp on this system isn't > large enough for the files that need to be uploaded, and an attempt to > replace it with a symbolic link to a partition with more room was a dismal > failure (I guess nsd can't follow symbolic links). > > I searched the config file reference for tmp and temp, but didn't find > anything. Is there a configuration option for this? >
I'm sure nsd can follow symlinks because I use symlinks in the pages dirs all the time. I don't think nsd ever really notices that a symlink is a symlink. It looks like temporary files are made using the P_tmpdir constant from stdio.h. On my Mac OS X box, P_tmpdir is /var/tmp. You should look to see if your stdio.h defines P_tmpdir, and then make sure you make that into a symlink to the Place of Large Capacity. Pete.
