Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:52:07 -0500
From: "Karl O. Pinc" <kop@...1206...>
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To: David Sommerseth <openvpn.list@...1114...>
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On 04/07/2011 07:51:55 AM, David Sommerseth wrote:
> [resend copy to openvpn-devel list as well]

> I checked for the $TMPDIR variable on CentOS 5.5, Fedora 14 and=20
> Gentoo
> installations.  And $TMPDIR didn't show up at all, hence I thought
> this was
> not a really useful option.  However, I see from the wikipage that
> this is
> supposed to be part of SuS.  But it seems not to be respected in=20
> Linux
> at
> least.=20

FYI After poking about the man pages of various Un*xs I find:

login(1) does not have to set $TMPDIR, although the whole
login process can be configured to do so there's no=20
requirement that $TMPDIR exist.



Karl <kop@...1206...>
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