Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 22:56:20 -0500 From: Robey Holderith <robey@alltel.net> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: redirecting /tmp Message-ID: <4047FA64.7080401@alltel.net> In-Reply-To: <p060204c2bc6da67a34d2@[128.113.24.47]> References: <4047E7E0.7050405@alltel.net> <p060204c2bc6da67a34d2@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn wrote: > 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. > That's kinda what I figured. Ah well, the night is quickly disappearing so it looks like I might as well give up until tomorrow when something can be done. Thanks
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