Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > 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.
a. Take a chill pill. b. Edit TMPTIME in /etc/default/rcS c. Get over it. -- see shy jo
