so, whats /var/tmp for?
Christian Kauhaus wrote:
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> Hi!
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> On 10/08/97, m* wrote:
> > yup, like the vi.recover directory. i believe /var/tmp is the default
> > location for vi.recover is it not?
>
> No, it is not. The FSSTD says that /var/preserve is the default location for
> it. I've alread
Hi!
On 10/08/97, m* wrote:
> yup, like the vi.recover directory. i believe /var/tmp is the default
> location for vi.recover is it not?
No, it is not. The FSSTD says that /var/preserve is the default location for
it. I've already filed bugs against vim, elvis, et. al.
Regards
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_/ Christian
George Bonser wrote:
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> Yeah, so you can have some temporary scratch space that survives a reboot.
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> Anything that can evaporate at reboot time, you put in /tmp, anything you want
> to survive a reboot, you put in /var/tmp.
>
yup, like the vi.recover directory. i believe /var/tmp is the defa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> The purpose of /var/tmp is to unload the possible activity and
> space requirements from root.
/var/tmp was created after /usr/tmp, to let /usr be read only.
In fact /usr/tmp is now a symlink to ../var/tmp
/tmp is to be considered less persistent than /var/tmp : idea
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote:
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> Yeah, so you can have some temporary scratch space that survives a reboot.
>
> Anything that can evaporate at reboot time, you put in /tmp, anything you
> want
> to survive a reboot, you put in /var/tmp.
I would caution against using this idea on a
Yeah, so you can have some temporary scratch space that survives a reboot.
Anything that can evaporate at reboot time, you put in /tmp, anything you want
to survive a reboot, you put in /var/tmp.
On 07-Oct-97 Lawrence wrote:
>any reason why /tmp be cleaned at boot time while /var/tmp not?
>
>l
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