@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@
 # and set the dbdir to /var/tmp/$USER/mt_db to enable keeping
 # the raw db in /var/tmp/$USER
 #
 faststart  no
 monitordir #{getenv MT_RUN_AREA_HOME}/db
-dbdir      #{getenv MT_RUN_AREA_HOME}/db
+dbdir      /tmp/#{getenv USER}/#{getenv MT_TESTSUITE_NAME}/db
 
 # sync more aggressively to megatest-db
 megatest-db yes
 
 # Set launchwait to no to use the more agressive code that does not wait for the launch to complete before proceeding