Re: /tmp filling up

[Derek R. Price]

David Oleszkiewicz wrote:

> i foolishly installed freebsd using the suggested partitions sizes, and
> my /tmp directory turns out to be too small to handle the temporary files
> created by cvs.  i tried changing the TMPDIR environment variable to point
> to a larger partition but cvs doesn't recognize this.  The GNU coding
> standards suggest that programs always check this variable before
> defaulting to /tmp, for temporary file placement.  should cvs do this.
> it'd be a quick fix to implement.

It does reference this variable.  Are you sure you exported TMPDIR?

http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_19.html#SEC178

Derek

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