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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > 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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > > 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.
