RE: why /var/tmp/ not be cleaned at boot time
On Mon, 6 Oct 1997, George Bonser wrote:
>
> 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 any machine you don't
control. The purpose of /var/tmp is to unload the possible activity and
space requirements from root. Consistent with this I'd assume
/var/tmp or any /*/tmp to be purged at boot.
If looking for persistent scratch space put a directory in /var/spool.
That *nices do not handle this out of the box is not surprising.
tmp filesystems and directories and dangling tmp symlinks are all
things to be decided by the system administrator.
> On 07-Oct-97 Lawrence wrote:
> >any reason why /tmp be cleaned at boot time while /var/tmp not?
> >
> >lawrence
rob
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