On Catalina, what should /private/tmp look like?
Here is how my Catalina machine looks:
Charlie:/ sfederman$ ls -lA /tmp /private/
lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root admin 11 Jul 16 14:05 /tmp -> private/tmp
/private/:
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 86 root wheel 2752 Oct 19 19:43 etc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 64 Jul 6 01:22 tftpboot
drwxrwxrwt 9 root wheel 288 Oct 21 10:59 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 28 root wheel 896 Oct 4 10:24 var
So:
- Yes,
/tmpis a softlink to/private/tmp -
/private/tmpis a directory.