RE: why /var/tmp/ not be cleaned at boot time

To: Lawrence <ychim@ForeverMail.com>
Cc: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: RE: why /var/tmp/ not be cleaned at boot time
From: George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 19:48:26 -0700 (PDT)
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 34398A70.F9D45469@ForeverMail.com>

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?
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>lawrence
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