Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:46:30 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna <behanna@mail.yourfit.com> To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some VMware progress. More questions (was Re: latest VMware port dumping core. ) Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.21.0007261244470.315-100000@armani.yourfit.com> In-Reply-To: <v04210100b5a4b55f3d67@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> > [...problems with VMWare filling up /tmp...]
>
> Do not play around with symlinks for /tmp. One of the readme or
> hints files talks about setting and exporting an environment variable
> so that vmware will use a different directory than /tmp for it's
> purposes. I created a simple shell which just sets that environment
> variable, and then starts the real vmware.
>
> At the very least, /var/tmp is MEANT to be different than /tmp, and
> thus I expect that you should not symlink the one to the other.
_The Complete FreeBSD_ recommends symlinking /tmp to /usr/tmp, or
some other such thing (e.g., its own partition).
Do you foresee problemps with /tmp -> /usr/tmp?
--
Chris BeHanna
Software Engineer (at yourfit.com)
behanna@zbzoom.net
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