RE: Redirect Swap Space?

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: RE: Redirect Swap Space?, Lisa M. Doucette said (at 2:44pm on...:

>I've looked through existing documentation and archives but can't find any
>information about having CVS use someplace other than /tmp for swap space.

The "standard" way for an application to do this is to look for the TMPDIR
environment variable, and use that for the directory to create temporary
files.  This doesn't happen automatically, it's up to the application to
do this.

Still, if I:

$strings /local/gnu/bin/cvs | egrep TMP
TMPDIR
E Value of %s for TMPDIR is not absolute


So it appears that cvs does honor TMPDIR.  Try setting that, a la

        TMPDIR=$HOME/my_tmp_directory
        export TMPDIR

        cvs whatever

Tim
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