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/tmp disappearing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek W Truesdale)
Fri Feb 2 13:42:10 1996
From: Derek W Truesdale <derekt@MIT.EDU>
To: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1996 13:37:59 EST
Hi,
I want to use matlab on my machine, but my old /tmp was 5K 512-blocks,
and matlab needs more.
So, I commented out the line in my fstab that talks about /tmp, I made
a directory in /u1, chmod 1777 that directory, and symlinked /tmp to
the directory in /u1.
(over the course of two hours, helped by ghudson)
Then matlab ran.
and there was much rejoicing.
===============THE PROBLEM=================
The problem I have now is that /tmp is magically disappearing on me
after a certain amount of time. i.e. the symlink disappears. This
only happens when my machine is idle for some time, and, I think, only
while the xlogin window is floating around.
What do I do?
===============END PROBLEM=================
incidentally, the timing of this /tmp getting deleted is very similar
to when I was having a problem with /etc/athena/version not being
around, and getcluster getting upset, and then making X complain about
TransSocketErrors.
(to fix that, I just created an /etc/athena/version. not sure why the
first one ever disappeared in the first place, though)
thanks,
Derek.
