[Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

andre999 andre999mga at laposte.net
Sat Jan 21 20:21:43 CET 2012


Colin Guthrie a écrit :
> 'Twas brillig, and Oliver Burger at 21/01/12 17:21 did gyre and gimble:
>    
>> Hi,
>>
>> while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about
>> those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories:
>> /tmp/
>> /var/tmp/
>> ~/tmp/ (one for every user)
>>
>> Now I can understand the reason behind having the user's tmp
>> separately, but why do we have two system wide separate tmp
>> directories?
>> This get's even more complicated by the fact that there are symbolic
>> links in .kde4/ to both:
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli   21 Okt  7 10:34 cache-beteigeuze.oli-home ->
>> /var/tmp/kdecache-oli/
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli   16 Okt  7 10:34 socket-beteigeuze.oli-home ->
>> /tmp/ksocket-oli/
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 oli oli   12 Okt  7 10:34 tmp-beteigeuze.oli-home ->  /tmp/kde-oli/
>>      
> Can you not just symlink /tmp to /var/tmp?
>
> Col
>    

+1

-- 
André



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