where's tmp?

[Carl Lowenstein]

> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:55:06 -0700
> From: George Georgalis <george at stoneanalytics.com>
> To: kplug guru <kplug-list at kernel-panic.org>
> Subject: where's tmp?
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> User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i
> X-Operating-System: Linux rex
>
> I just discovered two tmp directories with identical content...
>
> [root at rex trimp]# ls -ld /usr/tmp/ /var/tmp/
> drwxrwxrwt   11 root     root         3072 Sep 18 14:52 /usr/tmp/
> drwxrwxrwt   11 root     root         3072 Sep 18 14:52 /var/tmp/
> [root at rex trimp]# ls -l /usr/tmp/ | md5sum - ;ls -l /var/tmp/ | md5sum -
> 8722e3ade967adacbb65d5d2feb4c59f  -
> 8722e3ade967adacbb65d5d2feb4c59f  -
>
> how could this be? and why would tmp be being written to two partitions?
> This is a fairly new install with nothing unusual done, I did do a `ln
> -s /tmp /var` so that I would only have one tmp... and now this, weard.

Hey, george.  Did you (or somebody) also do
	# ln -s /var/tmp /usr/tmp

RedHat does that all the time.

    carl