Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 14:57:33 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net> Cc: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re: misc/5054: /tmp not nuked on reboot Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.96.971115144908.6026B-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971115153738.9762E-100000@cello.synapse.net>
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On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Evan Champion wrote: # On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Steve Price wrote: # # Well, not quite, since that only gets run out of crontab. Something # should be run on boot, and it needs to nuke everything (except the # exclusions mentionned in my original post, ie: quotas and lost+found). # <MY_OPINION_ONLY> I guess that is a matter of preference really. I personally don't clear /tmp on any of my machines, preferring to clean them manually. I keep alot of stuff that I don't want toasted in /tmp and since power outtages seem to happen frequently around here and I don't have a UPS (yet) 'cleaning /tmp' is of no use to me. That doesn't mean it is not the right thing to do in certain circumstances as I am sure you can attest. I would guess that the premise is that having to reboot a machine is a very infrequent occurrence (at least with anything not MSoft that is) and doing this as a cron job will allow the system administrator to choose the frequency with which cleanings of /tmp occur and not leave it up to fate or some other ill-fated reason. </MY_OPINION_ONLY> Steve # Evan # #
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