redirecting /tmp

[Robey Holderith]

Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 9:37 PM -0500 3/4/04, Robey Holderith wrote:
> 
>> I'm trying to find a way to set an environmental variable so
>> that the system will use /usr/tmp or something instead of /tmp
>> as a temporary directory.
> 
> 
> Some utilities will pay attention to the TMPDIR environment variable.
> 
>> The story is that I was attempting to change the size of /usr
>> remotely.  I backed up all the data and then copied the bare
>> necessities over to /tmp then changed fstab so the drive formerly
>> known as /usr was never mounted and /tmp was mounted as /usr.
>> Great! it worked... but now su isn't working... because
>> now /tmp is 755.
> 
> 
> However, things that run setuid or setgid will probably avoid
> looking at environment variables.  You may have painted yourself
> into a corner here, and will need to be at the machine to log in
> as root.
> 

That's kinda what I figured.  Ah well, the night is quickly disappearing 
so it looks like I might as well give up until tomorrow when something 
can be done.

Thanks