Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> I've fount that the vncserver doesn't start correctly after a power
> outage or non-normal shutdown. It appears that file in the
> /tmp/.X11-unix directory is left after the reboot, and causes the
> startup to fail.
>
> My solution at the moment is to have a script in cron.hourly that
> checks if it is running, and it not it removes the file, and restarts
> the service.
An alternative is to put a line like
none /tmp tmpfs nodev,noexec 0 0
into /etc/fstab. This will have the effect of automatically clearing out
/tmp every boot.
What it actually does is turn /tmp into a tmpfs mount. If you have
plenty of RAM free, then it will hold the contents of /tmp *just* in
memory. If you have almost all your RAM being used for programs and
caching (the normal state on a computer that’s been running a while),
the kernel may choose to reclaim some of the memory that’s being used
for the contents of /tmp, using the same algorithms as normal. It will
write the contents to swap space.
Obviously, if you’re used to putting multi-gigabyte files in /tmp,
you’ll need to either start using /var/tmp or making sure you have
plenty of swap.
James.
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