what does it mean

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Ed Skinner wrote:

> 6) Now, reboot the system. On my machine I use the following command:
>      reboot
> 7) Log-in normally and see if things are better.

>

>      The /tmp filesystem, in theory at least, "can be" discarded every time
> the system is rebooted. In practice, however, this doesn't always happen (but

I'd suggest instead of clearing tmp before rebooting that it is done right
at reboot. Mike, have a look for cleantmp or related tools or just do your
own rm at boot time early (right after /tmp is available) in the boot
order.

Cleaning tmp (even when logged out) may accidently delete some files in
use by some tasks that are needed.

Jeremy C. Reed
http://bsd.reedmedia.net/