Strange behavior (for me)

[Taavi Talvik]

 > erl -mnesia dir /tmp
Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.4.12 [source] [hipe] [threads:0] 
[kernel-poll]

Eshell V5.4.12  (abort with ^G)
1> mnesia:start().

=ERROR REPORT==== 17-Feb-2006::11:59:20 ===
application_controller: syntax error before: '/': /tmp
{error,{bad_environment_value,"/tmp"}}

System:
FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov  3 09:36:13 UTC 2005     
root@REDACTED:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC

Erlang compiled from port:
	erlang-r10b9,1
	# $FreeBSD: ports/lang/erlang/Makefile,v 1.81 2006/02/04 23:52:18 
olgeni Exp $



best regards,
taavi