Re: Symlinking /tmp to /var...
Hello all,
You were right, Brian, and Karsten, /var/tmp is NOT wiped on bootup.
Sorry, my fault, didn't remember it exactly.
Regards,
Daniel
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Daniel Reuter (reuter@Uni-Hohenheim.DE) wrote:
> > Hello there,
> >
> > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Bud Rogers (budr@sirinet.net) wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp
> > > >
> > > > That would have been my suggestion. Anything wrong with that?
> > >
> > > Check your init scripts. /tmp is wiped on boot. /var/tmp may not be.
> >
> > In a standard installation (i.e. you havn't modified the init-scripts
> > yourself), /var/tmp is wiped. So the symlink way worked for me without the
> > slightest problem.
>
> Are you sure?
>
> If you've created the symlink and /var/tmp is mounted, you will wipe
> /var/tmp at boot along with /tmp.
>
> If you're running the tmpreaper utility, you'll automatically wipe
> everything in /tmp not accessed within the past 7 days.
>
> /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh wipes /tmp only, not /var/tmp.
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