Re: redirecting /tmp and /var/tmp

2005-09-01 Thread Peter Halls
Very many thanks, Igor. Yes, when thinking UNIX the answer is sort of obvious - it is good to revise old knowledge! Best wishes, Peter On Aug 30 2005, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, PJ Halls wrote: > Having had the Cygwin environment on several staff systems for some > time, we

Re: redirecting /tmp and /var/tmp

2005-08-30 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, PJ Halls wrote: > Having had the Cygwin environment on several staff systems for some > time, we now desire to roll this out into classrooms but have hit a > problem. > > For our classrooms, it is policy that all managed software be installed > on read-only drives / C: partiti

Re: redirecting /tmp and /var/tmp

2005-08-30 Thread Eric Blake
> For our classrooms, it is policy that all managed software be installed > on read-only drives / C: partitions to prevent students meddling. > However, for Cygwin to run it must have write access to /tmp and > /var/tmp. Is there any way to 'redirect' these essentials from the > Cygwin home space

redirecting /tmp and /var/tmp

2005-08-30 Thread PJ Halls
Having had the Cygwin environment on several staff systems for some time, we now desire to roll this out into classrooms but have hit a problem. For our classrooms, it is policy that all managed software be installed on read-only drives / C: partitions to prevent students meddling. However, for C