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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
