On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Adam Bower wrote: > On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > Hey, don't delete my fucking work, just because I happen to have put it in > > /tmp. /tmp means "temporary", it doesn't mean "delete upon reboot". If > > you want that, how about "/gets-deleted-at-reboot". DUH. /tmp on Linux > > is not some stupid communist shit-licking in-memory filesystem like it is > > on Solaris. And if I find the fuckbag who wrote the script that delted my > > work, I'm going to give him a piece of my mind. > > You do not know the difference between /tmp then and /var/tmp it is a very > well recognised way of doing things for a long time now. > > /tmp means do not persist over a reboot > /var/tmp means do persist over a reboot
That's all well and good, but there's no reason whatever to clear out /tmp if the machine shutdown unexpectedly. If you ABSOLUTELY INSIST on clearing /tmp, put it in the shutdown scripts not the bootup scripts. It's a completely stupid and useless policy that doesn't help one lick for long-living systems (the majority of Unix systems, at least all the ones I've ever used). Clearing /tmp on boot is traditional (indeed, implied and unavoidable) WHEN /tmp is mounted on a memory file system, otherwise it is insipid. I have a good policy: delete /tmp files that haven't been accessed in over 7 days, only if the device upon which /tmp is mounted has passed some free space low water mark. -jwb
