Re: Temporary files directory

[andy <dovienya@diatribes.org>]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:29:08AM +0200, Michael Wagner wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:06:13AM +0200, daniele pendenza wrote:
> 
> > - Is it possible to redirect the actual temporary directory to another 
> > directory ? I mean tell the system to use another temporary directory - not 
> > the /tmp ?
> 
> Hello Daniele,
> 
> look at "man bash" and search for TMPDIR. When you set this variable it
> does what you want.

as a note, the TMPDIR variable can be set automatically with the
libpam-tmpdir package:
ii  libpam-tmpdir             0.07-1         automatic per-user temporary directories

	andy