<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Rodolfo Aramayo <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:raramayo@gmail.com" target="_blank">raramayo@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace">export TMPDIR=/Users/$username/.emacs.d/tmp</div></blockquote></div><br>That&#39;d be the problem. Where did you get that .bash_aliases? It&#39;s a rather bad idea for the root account.<br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>brandon s allbery kf8nh                               sine nomine associates</div><div><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>                                  <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div>unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad        <a href="http://sinenomine.net" target="_blank">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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