ln -s /var/tmp /tmp

[Michael Meissner]

In article <28623 at netnews.upenn.edu> kehoe at scotty.dccs.upenn.edu
(Brendan Kehoe) writes:

|  My / partition has about 1.5 megs available on it..any reason why I shouldn't
| redirect /tmp to /usr/tmp (which in turn goes to /var/tmp on my Sun) with a
| symbolic link, so that there'll never be problems w/ storage? Will anything
| die if /tmp is a link?
|  Thanks..

Some (all?) versions of cp use lstat instead of stat to determine if
the last argument is a directory, and fail if /tmp is a symlink.
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