RE: bash and temp

["Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of One Angry User
> Sent: 19 January 2005 16:28
> To: Talk Amongst Yourselves
> Subject: RE: bash and temp
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jan 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: cygwin-talk-owner On Behalf Of Guy Przytula
> > > Sent: 19 January 2005 01:31
> >
> > > when opening bash window I get : warning: could not find 
> /tmp, please
> > > create!
> > > I can see different tmp directories below cygwin.
> > > Any specific bash is looking for ?
> > > Any help is accepted
> > > Best Regards, Guy Przytula
> >
> >   How dare you make an on-topic post on this list!?  That's 
> off-topic!
> >
> >   However, it sounds like you've got mountpoint troubles.  Did you
> > perhaps run setup.exe to install "Just for me", but now 
> you've changed
> > to a different user name?  If so, you'd need to re-run 
> setup and specify
> > "For all users" this time. Or you could probably play with the magic
> > "mount -m | sed " command, but I can't remember it off the top of my
> > head.
> >
> >   If that doesn't help, you should follow the instructions at
> > http://cygwin.com/problems, and post to the main cygwin 
> list instead of
> > the talk list.
> 
> ...And you forgot to redirect the reply to the main list, thereby
> polluting the off-topic list even more with an on-topic reply to an
> on-topic question.  I'm onto you, DaveK!
> 
> OAU

  No, wait a minute... surely if the question was off-topic, and my reply was
on-topic to something off-topic, that makes my reply off-topic, and therefore
on-topic?


    cheers, 
      DaveK
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