[PLUG] /tmp

[Sean Whitney]

Please be aware that this is changing across different distributions.

RedHat now doesn't remove everything on reboot.  It does have some sort of 
cronjob that cleans some stuff up.  However after a reboot the files are 
still there.


Sean

On Friday 08 August 2003 08:06 pm, Carla Schroder wrote:


> On Friday 08 August 2003 10:02 am, Dirk Ouellette wrote:
> > What should remain in my /tmp file at any time?
> > Thanks, Dirk
>
>  It can safely be cleaned out every reboot. Other than that, leave it
> alone. Just firing up an Internet connection, for one example, creates a
> raft of /tmp files. Many programs need /tmp files, I leave them alone. I
> check it occasionally for leftover garbage, but most programs are good at
> cleaning up after themselves.

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