From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 4 18:37:22 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC3C516A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta02-srv.alltel.net (mta02.alltel.net [166.102.165.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 634FD43D41 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:37:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robey@alltel.net) Received: from alltel.net ([162.40.47.122]) by mta02-srv.alltel.net with ESMTP id <20040305023721.RUG19144.mta02-srv.alltel.net@alltel.net> for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 20:37:21 -0600 Message-ID: <4047E7E0.7050405@alltel.net> Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 21:37:20 -0500 From: Robey Holderith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031014 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: redirecting /tmp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2004 02:37:22 -0000 I'm trying to find a way to set an environmental variable so that the system will use /usr/tmp or something instead of /tmp as a temporary directory. The story is that I was attempting to change the size of /usr remotely. I backed up all the data and then copied the bare necessities over to /tmp then changed fstab so the drive formerly known as /usr was never mounted and /tmp was mounted as /usr. Great! it worked... but now su isn't working... because now /tmp is 755. Any insights are welcome. -Robey Holderith