On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> wrote:
> For the mentioned appliances, that would not be a problem. > However there's a distinction between /tmp and /var/tmp > that can be summarized like this: The content of /tmp may > disappear after a reboot (see clear_tmp_enable="YES" in > /etc/rc.conf), whereas /var/tmp is to be preserved during > reboot. Some programs rely on this behavior when putting > "delete-temporary" and "keep-temporary" files into the > respective directories. You are quite right - most of what's in /var is expected to be persistent. In the case where /var/tmp is on a mfs, it's hard to oblige. On these same systems, I do have rc scripts that save parts of /var (those listed in an rc.conf variable) for shutdown, and populate those dirs (after /etc/rc.d/var does its mtree stuff) on start up. - M _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
