Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 22:40:45 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Robey Holderith <robey@alltel.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: redirecting /tmp Message-ID: <p060204c2bc6da67a34d2@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <4047E7E0.7050405@alltel.net> References: <4047E7E0.7050405@alltel.net>
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At 9:37 PM -0500 3/4/04, Robey Holderith wrote: >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. Some utilities will pay attention to the TMPDIR environment variable. >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. However, things that run setuid or setgid will probably avoid looking at environment variables. You may have painted yourself into a corner here, and will need to be at the machine to log in as root. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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