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From: Peter Halls <pjh1 AT york DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: redirecting /tmp and /var/tmp
Date: 01 Sep 2005 08:55:54 +0100
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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 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 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 onto, for example, C:/temp (which is the only part of
> > C: to which we permit our students write access)?
> 
> "man mount" and/or 
> <http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using-utils.html#mount>.
> 
> You may also need to redirect /home (the default /etc/profile may try to
> create a directory for the student there), and maybe others, too.
> 	Igor
> 

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