In article <20040815214614.GA19350@nixsys.bz>,  <othyro@freeshell.org> wrote:
>Imagine that the TMPDIR env var is set globally in /etc/profile and the
>like to the value ${HOME}/tmp. Then someone removes their ~/tmp and when
>the `finger' command is run, the output is "No such file or directory".
>Is this the desired behavior? a bug?

- You can always unset it.
- The fact that the system allows stupid settings is not a bug.
- The /etc/profile setting could check if ~/tmp existed and was writable.

christos