On Friday, 21.01.2005 at 08:38 -0500, Jason Rennie wrote: > On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 10:14:28AM +0000, Dave Ewart wrote: > > Typically, /tmp is flushed at boot up. Don't know if symlinking it > > may stop that happening or not - probably depends on your config. > > Speaking of /tmp being flushed at boot, is there an easy (i.e. > dpkg-reconfigure) way to change the policy so that files are only > deleted after (e.g.) 30 days? Check the file /etc/default/rcS ... I believe you just need to change that, for the behaviour at boot up. If your system is going to be always-on and you wish to have /tmp kept pruned, investigate the package tmpreaper. Dave. -- Dave Ewart - davee@sungate.co.uk - jabber: davee@jabber.org All email from me is now digitally signed, key from http://www.sungate.co.uk/ Fingerprint: AEC5 9360 0A35 7F66 66E9 82E4 9E10 6769 CD28 DA92
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