AW: tgz - "no space left on device" on "managed server"!

["Dampz, Joachim" <jo dampz dampz de>]

Hi,

thanks to all for the quick response.

> > I run in troubles with a preinstalled version 4.5.55 on two of my 
> > customers managed servers.
> >
> > It is not possible to view tgz-archives bigger than 256MB. 
> > I presume this is due to the fact that the /tmp directory has only 
> > this size.
> > Im not able to change the size of this directory on this 
> type of server.
> > Is it possible, with any parameter, to use another working direcory 
> > than /tmp?
> > Or any other solution?
>
> In your ~/.bashrc
>
>     mkdir -p ~/tmp
>     export TEMP=~/tmp


I regret to say that this tipp will not work in my environment.

> I'm going to guess bash shell here. If you use a different 
> shell you should also know how to look things up for 
> yourself. With bash:
>     export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp

This one works. :-) Thanks a lot for help.

Best regards
namtscho