Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:01:06 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Why doesn't FreeBSD clear /tmp on bootup? Message-ID: <17978.5458.302635.388935@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <e14997e00705030937h50cedea7j1978de09f37542ca@mail.gmail.com> References: <e14997e00705030937h50cedea7j1978de09f37542ca@mail.gmail.com>
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sac writes: > I've seen OpenBSD and some other variants of Unix clearing /tmp on > bootup. But FreeBSD doesn't seem to do so. Look deeper, Grasshopper. huff@>> grep -i tmp /etc/rc.conf clear_tmp_enable="YES" # Clear /tmp at startup. This is set to NO in /etc/defaults/rc,conf. As to why ... for their own reasons some folks put things in /tmp they don't want to vanish. Robert Huff
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