John Plocher wrote: > > ...making things easier for users... > > Why should the user care about this? By definition, things in TMPDIR > are ephemeral and don't usually get noticed by users - unless the > system is h0rked and there is no space left there. > > Since most users don't touch TMPDIR today,
Erm, that's not true. Many of our users use TMPDIR for some quick testing or work which doesn't need to be saved permanently (perfect example are training sessions for newbies or just compile another quick testcase for a bug). And AFAIK we're not the only site where people behave like that since I've seen similar settings for TMPDIR at other universities, too. That's why I came up with the proposal: This setting is very popular and may be usefull as general default for login sessions. ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
