Easy way to kill a 5.x/6.x box as a basic user.

[Michael A. Koerber]

Rob wrote:
> Michael A. Koerber wrote:
> 
>>I have found that ImageMagick writes to (and often
>>fills up) /var/tmp...my system becomes sluggish,
>>dies, reboots.
>>
>>The solution I have used is to 1) create a /usr/tmp,
>>2) remove /var/tmp , 3) make a symbolic link
>>between /usr/tmp and /var/tmp.
>>
>>Perhaps ImageMagick could be patched to use a
>>/usr/tmp directory for scratch.
> 
> 
> Use:
> 
> setenv MAGICK_TMPDIR /usr/tmp
> 
> Rob.

TNX!  And of course, had I read the man page I'd have known that :-(.

mike