'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 21/01/12 17:21 did gyre and gimble: > Hi, > > while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about > those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: > /tmp/ > /var/tmp/ > ~/tmp/ (one for every user) > > Now I can understand the reason behind having the user's tmp > separately, but why do we have two system wide separate tmp > directories? > This get's even more complicated by the fact that there are symbolic > links in .kde4/ to both: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli 21 Okt 7 10:34 cache-beteigeuze.oli-home -> > /var/tmp/kdecache-oli/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli 16 Okt 7 10:34 socket-beteigeuze.oli-home -> > /tmp/ksocket-oli/ > lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli 12 Okt 7 10:34 tmp-beteigeuze.oli-home -> > /tmp/kde-oli/
Can you not just symlink /tmp to /var/tmp? Col -- Colin Guthrie colin(at)mageia.org http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/
