[Hampshire] Wot - no /tmp?

Hi all



Never come across this before - a clean install did not create a /tmp
directory. Should I worry?



'Tis the time of year where I think about a shiny new machine for Christmas
so I've been trying out a few distros to have a play with over the festive
season. I decided on Mepis and ran it inside a VirtualBox host giving it
only a gig of RAM.



When I tried to start x (with startx) I got permission denied - because /tmp
didn't exist (infact it links to /var/tmp on mepis - not sure why).



I'm no expert (to say the least!) on the way the system fits together at
that sort of low level (i.e. outside X) but I'd assume the kernel has to
write files somewhere all the time does it not?



I've obviously created /var/tmp and the link from /tmp works. However I'm
now wondering if other aspects of the install are likely to have failed
because /tmp wasn't present.



Any ideas anyone?



Cheers

Rob