> On 30 May 2019, at 07:37, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote:
>
> On 30.05.19 07:27, @lbutlr wrote:
>> On 30 May 2019, at 07:24, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote:
>>> But can still be deleted at any time, just "less frequently than /tmp";
>>> certainly not a place to store necessary files. I don't see this anywhere
>>> for *BSD, thankfully, so I can safely ignore it.
>>
>> Goops, forgot to past this:
>>
>>
>> /var/tmp/ Temporary files which are usually preserved across a system
>> reboot, unless /var is a memory-based file system.
>>
>> which is much weaker than "…must not be deleted when the system is booted."
>
> and what exxactly are you complaining about?
Nothing. Just commenting out the difference between Linux and *BSD in how they
view this directory.
> btw the OP used /var/run, which is also designed to be cleaned upon boot.
That's not even part of the defined hierarchy for BSD, though it is often used
for storing PID files and some sockets. Storing real data there seems like a
bad idea, but sure enough, some programs seem to have put stuff there on my
system, and some of it is quite old. Of course, without a specific policy in
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/dirstructure.html it's hard to predict
what will happen, though I would hope it is untouched.
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