Temp space and committing

[Rithban]

I just ran into a funny situation. I just checked in a series of big 
binary files that will change rarely, but ought to be made available in 
CVS. When checking in I received a message stating

    unable to write, file WN200-H-SUAGP2.dat
    No space left on device

I determined that /tmp on the CVS server filled up. (I wasn't aware that 
CVS even used /tmp during a commit.)

I temporarily solved this problem by creating a tmp on a big drive with 
extra space. However, I don't want that to be the official /tmp. Neither 
do I want to have to rename /tmp, make a symlink for the temporary /tmp, 
and then undo the two steps to revert back to the original /tmp.

Commits this big are very, very, very rare, but I hate surprizes!

Is there a way I can force CVS to use a specific directory for its 
scratch space?

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As someone who has worked both in private industry and in academia, 
whenever I hear about academics wanting to teach ethics to people in 
business, I want to puke.
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