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Author: Michael Havens
Date:  
Subject: what does it mean
Are you saying that I should do it before it boots straight into X.. How =
do I prevent it from going into X?
:-)Mike(-:
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeremy C. Reed
Sent: 1/8/2004 12:20:00 PM
To:
Subject: Re: 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 happe=

n (but

I'd suggest instead of clearing tmp before rebooting that it is done righ=
t
at reboot. Mike, have a look for cleantmp or related tools or just do you=
r
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/

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