Re: [Hampshire] Wot - no /tmp?

On Sunday 21 November 2010 16:14:34 Rob Malpass wrote:
> 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

Which version of Mepis, there currently 3 available, 8.11(KDE 3.5.10) 8.5
(KDE4.3) or 11 (Alpha 10.9.80 (released this afternoon), KDE 4.4)??

Tim