On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 05:18:46PM +0300, Oleg Lukashin wrote: > * Solar Designer (solar@private) wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 08:22:41PM +0300, Oleg Lukashin wrote: > > > I've got a non-standart problem with /tmp. I need to make /tmp as > > > a symlink to /var/tmp, but cannot do this, because of hidden > > > /tmp/.private/root, that cannot be deleted. Who making these dirs > > > (i mean under /tmp) > > > > pam_mktemp does. > > I had the same opinion, and commented it in /etc/pam.d/login, I suggest that you don't. > but, it doesn't help... because files already created :) Indeed. > > The reason /tmp/.private is append-only is for > > pam_mktemp to co-exist with Red Hat's tmpwatch (if you install it on > > Owl). > > Yes, make installworld installing stmpclean. tmpwatch is a part > of this packet. The tmpwatch in our stmpclean package is just a compatibility wrapper, to be possibly used by Red Hat Linux packages you might install (in particular, tetex package from RHL adds a cron job which uses tmpwatch, so we don't upset it). Red Hat's original tmpwatch is NOT in Owl. -- /sd
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