On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 09:44:15AM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote: > Yes I agree. But wich $TMPDIR should we use ? /var/tmp does not fit > because it is not cleaned at boot. And the problem is the default have > changed. I do not excuse sloppy programmer. but we need something like > a standard tmp dir that is file backed and cleaned every boot.
You can, on the systems you administer, do one of the following: * disable tmpfs for /tmp and arrange /tmp to have enough disk space for all the things you run on your system; you can, for example, mount a whole separate filesystem as /tmp, from a RAID-0 array of several SSD drives, if you wish * set TMPDIR to point at /var/tmp, or another filesystem, either globally, or per user, or when starting particular programs that need lots of temporary file space; you can, further, arrange to have whatever directory that points at to be cleaned at boot time; if you have the energy, you could even add a configuration option to /etc/init.d/mountall-bootclean.sh to allow the sysadmin to specify more directories to be cleaned at boot time, rather than a hard-coded list (this would help others in your situation in the future) Either will solve your problem. Neither is a particularly good default for Debian to have. This is one of those situations, it seems to me, where there is no solution that satisfies everyone. -- Freedom-based blog/wiki/web hosting: http://www.branchable.com/
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