Re: Orbit's temp. directory

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2000, Todd Lewis wrote:

> But you don't _really_ know that /tmp is not on NFS either.

If /tmp is on NFS, then you are running a diskless workstation anyways and
there's no place to hide.

Even more important than having /tmp on local storage is making sure that
it is system-specific and not shared between a bunch of systems.

-- Elliot
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