Customers have asked if they can control whether the SAS^® System uses any space in the /tmp directory. There are various scenarios in which you might want to avoid the use of the /tmp directory.

• During the installation of SAS:

  When you invoke the SAS^® Download Manager or the SAS^® Deployment Wizard, direct temporary storage away from the default location of /tmp. Do so by setting the system variable TMPDIR before invoking the SAS Deployment Wizard. The command might look something like this:

  export TMPDIR=/directory/with/atleast100M

• During deployment of the SAS^®9 BI Platform Servers:

  These servers (metadata server, table server, object spawner) create small utility files in /tmp by default. To change this behavior, select the option for "Custom" prompts during SAS Deployment Wizard execution. In the subsequent dialog box titled Create Common Directories, if you click the Create a common Temp directory radio button, then all of these servers place their respective utility files in the <configuration-directory>/Lev1/Temp directory.

• During execution of the SAS^® BI Servers:

  For details about routing the temporary files that were created by the SAS Stored Process Server to a directory other than /tmp, see SAS Note 36230: "Changing the location of the _STPWORK directory that is used by the SAS^® Stored Process Server or SAS^® Workspace Server."





Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Windows Vista	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2008	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems	9.2 TS2M0
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition	9.2 TS2M0
		z/OS	9.2 TS2M0
		Linux for x64	9.2 TS2M0
		Solaris for x64	9.2 TS2M0
		Linux	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled Solaris	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled AIX	9.2 TS2M0
		64-bit Enabled HP-UX	9.2 TS2M0
		HP-UX IPF	9.2 TS2M0

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.