Currently its /tmp
How can I set it to /anythingelse so that all applications use that subsequently?
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A:
Specific applications may have configuration options or environment variables for this, but in general *nix systems are supposed to use /tmp for temporary files, and this cannot be changed.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2010-09-27 12:25:28
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sudo rmdir /tmp && ln -s /some/other/loc /tmp
Alternatively, set the environment variable TMPDIR at the highest level possible. For the environment, or per user.
Matt Joiner
2010-09-27 12:29:13
This does not change it from `/tmp`. This merely changes where `/tmp` points.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2010-09-27 13:17:54
The clue is in "all applications subsequently". It doesn't get sweeter.
Matt Joiner
2010-09-27 14:41:11
A:
You can, if you really insist, make /tmp be a symbolic link to whatever location you want (Matt Joiner's answer gives the specific command to do that).
For example, on Mac OS, /tmp is a symlink to /private/tmp. This arrangement can be used to facilitate the ability to NFS-mount / (presumably read-only) while keeping system-specific files that can't be shared (/etc, /tmp, and so forth) in a /private partition on a local disk.
David Gelhar
2010-09-27 12:31:43