On 04/07/2011 07:51:55 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> [resend copy to openvpn-devel list as well]
> I checked for the $TMPDIR variable on CentOS 5.5, Fedora 14 and
> Gentoo
> installations. And $TMPDIR didn't show up at all, hence I thought
> this was
> not a really useful option. However, I see from the wikipage that
> this is
> supposed to be part of SuS. But it seems not to be respected in
> Linux
> at
> least.
FYI After poking about the man pages of various Un*xs I find:
login(1) does not have to set $TMPDIR, although the whole
login process can be configured to do so there's no
requirement that $TMPDIR exist.
Karl <k...@meme.com>
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-- Robert A. Heinlein
