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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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