[Nottingham] any issues symlinking /tmp -> /var/tmp ?

[Johannes Kling]

Hello,

> Quick question, on my Debian-based system I would like to symlink
> /tmp to /var/tmp since /var is on a separate partition with space
> and / is occasionally quickly filled. Any golden rules broken by
> doing this?

I do the opposite (sym-link /var/tmp to /tmp) on virtually all systems
at work, which so far has caused no problem. This doesn't say much
about your case other than it's wortha a try, but if there are any
golden rules broken then they haven't biten me yet.

Regards,
  Jo