Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-17 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello all, You were right, Brian, and Karsten, /var/tmp is NOT wiped on bootup. Sorry, my fault, didn't remember it exactly. Regards, Daniel On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Daniel Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > Hello there, >

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-16 Thread kmself
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Daniel Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hello there, > > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-16 Thread Brian May
> "Daniel" == Daniel Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Daniel> In a standard installation (i.e. you havn't modified the Daniel> init-scripts yourself), /var/tmp is wiped. So the symlink Daniel> way worked for me without the slightest problem. Regards, Daniel> Daniel Are you

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-16 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello there, On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > > > Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp > > > > That would have been my

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-14 Thread kmself
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > > Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp > > That would have been my suggestion. Anything wrong with that? Check your init scripts. /tmp is wipe

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-14 Thread Bud Rogers
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp That would have been my suggestion. Anything wrong with that? -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-14 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ethan Vaughn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: >> >> Dear debian-users, >> >> The disk space for my root-partition is 40 MB, while I supplied 80 MB >> for my /var-partition. I would like to make a symbolic link from /tmp, >> which resides in

Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-13 Thread Ethan Vaughn
Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: > > Dear debian-users, > > The disk space for my root-partition is 40 MB, while I supplied 80 MB > for my /var-partition. I would like to make a symbolic link from /tmp, > which resides in the root partition, to /var. > > This was my plan: > 1. Copying /tmp to /var/t

Symlinking /tmp to /var...

2000-10-13 Thread Andreas Hetzmannseder
Dear debian-users, The disk space for my root-partition is 40 MB, while I supplied 80 MB for my /var-partition. I would like to make a symbolic link from /tmp, which resides in the root partition, to /var. This was my plan: 1. Copying /tmp to /var/tmp.root (with /var/tmp.root being created) 2. De