Sven Luther wrote: >>[I just changed $template to start with /tmp; going to reboot shortly to >>see if it actually works...] > > > A tmpfs could also be used for that, could it not ? I'm not sure what you're asking... A tmpfs can definitely be mounted on /tmp, and I suppose yaird could mount a tmpfs wherever it plans to create its temporary files, but I'm not sure why you'd want to do that. /tmp exists for a reason; why not use it?