Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> writes: > My grep skills are failing me. > > I lost power on a laptop when editing a message in mutt/vim. I > booted "linux single" but bootclean (AFAIK) still ran and wiped out > my /tmp. > > Is there a trick to booting to avoid cleaning /tmp so I might be able > to recover from such an irritating event? > Set TMPTIME to 'infinite' in /etc/default/rcS 'man rcS' gives details. Regards, Bruno.