On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, John Plocher wrote: > This leads me to ask why not set TMPDIR to $HOME/tmp?
Ouch, potentially slow. I like having GNOME use relatively fast tmpfs rather than NFS.. > On a single user system, it really doesn't matter which resources are > used for this stuff - $HOME, /tmp, ... - it's all mine anyways. But > on that shared university system, /tmp is a resource-limited shared > resource and should not be used as an extension of the per-user $HOME > disk allocation. Shared resources must be scaled appropriately. A multi-user box can have /tmp sized according to number of users, single-user likewise. Fairly normal.. > Or, in other words, maybe the real fix here is to fix Mozilla (etc) to > default their download dirs to $HOME/Downloads :-) /tmp/$LOGNAME/ would have my vote over anything under $HOME. regardsm -- Paul Jakma, Solaris Networking Sun Microsystems, Scotland http://opensolaris.org/os/project/quagga tel: EMEA x73150 / +44 15066 73150
