[lug] CVS temporary files

[Hugh Brown]

On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 11:08 -0700, Jeff Schroeder wrote:
> Brad wrote:
> 
> > I don't know how to do this on the server side when using a different
> > transport such as ssh (CVS_RSH=/usr/bin/ssh) - but I did try this out
> > and it works when the client-side variables above are set.
> 
> Cool.  I'll pass that along to the clients... it would be nicer to do it 
> on the server, but hey-- at least it's something. :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Jeff


Set the TMPDIR environment variable in the server's shell startup files
(e.g. /etc/bashrc) for users with uid over 500

if [ "`id -u`" -gt 500 ]; then
TMPDIR=$HOME
export TMPDIR
fi

or something like that.

Hugh