[Zope] import and setting tmp dir

[John Hunter]

When I try and import a large zexp, I get a 'Error Value: [Errno 28]
No space left on device' (traceback below).  If I do a 'df' while the
import is processing, I can see the it is my root partition that is
filling up.

My zope install dir does not live on the root partition, and I have
set the TMPDIR env var in my zope start script to point to a non root
partition that has plenty of space.  When I start the python
interpreter in this environment, with the same command that I use to
start zope in 'start' and test the tempfile config, it points to the
dir I set with TMPDIR (ie, /workn/tmp)

>>> import tempfile
>>> print tempfile.mktemp()
/workn/tmp/@13559.0

However, if I restart zope and try to do the import again, I get the
same device full message and I see with df that it is the root
partition that is filling up again.

I have no idea why this is happening -- is it possible that there is
some tmp file allocation that is going on independently of tempfile
with the import, and if so, can anyone suggest how I can set where
that storage should reside?

Thanks,
John Hunter

Zope Version
(Zope 2.5.1b1 (source release, python 2.1, linux2), python 2.1.3, linux2)
Python Version
2.1.3 (#1, Apr 12 2002, 00:33:22) 
[GCC 3.0.4]
System Platform
linux2


Traceback:

Zope Error
Zope has encountered an error while publishing this resource.
Error Type: IOError
Error Value: [Errno 28] No space left on device
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Traceback (innermost last):
  File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 150, in publish_module
  File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 114, in publish
  File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/Zope/__init__.py, line 159, in zpublisher_exception_hook
    (Object: Zope)
  File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 98, in publish
  File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/mapply.py, line 88, in mapply
    (Object: manage_importObject)
  File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZPublisher/Publish.py, line 39, in call_object
    (Object: manage_importObject)
  File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1b1-src/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py, line 521, in manage_importObject
    (Object: Zope)
  File /usr/local/Zope-2.5.1b1-src/lib/python/OFS/ObjectManager.py, line 537, in _importObjectFromFile
    (Object: Zope)
  File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZODB/ExportImport.py, line 79, in importFile
  File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZODB/Transaction.py, line 234, in commit
  File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZODB/Connection.py, line 235, in commit
  File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZODB/ExportImport.py, line 152, in _importDuringCommit
  File /usr/local/Zope/lib/python/ZODB/TmpStore.py, line 77, in store
IOError: (see above)