variant symlinks (was Re: Anybody working on removing sendmail from base?)

[Evan Champion]

That's OK, I'm sure people are cringing at the thought of 47 copies of the
same software on their servers too :-)

More seriously, dumping temporary files in /tmp rather than somewhere in the
user's home always offended my sensibilities.  I personally don't like users
being able to write all over the place, and making /var/tmp and /tmp
symlinks to places in the user's home keeps them more nicely self-contained.
Vive la difference! :-)

Evan

"Matthew Dillon" <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:200310030607.h9367vkQ037644 at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> :
> :
> ::While I personally don't have a huge need to have 47 copies of the same
> ::software :-) something I do like the idea of is a variant symlink for
/tmp
> ::like:
> ::
> ::/tmp -> ${HOME}/tmp
> ::
> ::What possibilities would we have there?
> ::
> ::Thanks,
> ::
> ::Evan
> :
> :    That would be a fairly mangled misuse of variant symlinks.
> :
> : -Matt
>
>     ... That was a joke, by the way :-)  You could do it, but people would
>     cringe.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>