Re: /tmp

Joe Huber wrote:
> Here comes a stupid question (don't laugh).
>
> How temporary is /tmp? I've downloaded Firefox twice (both times into /tmp)
> to play around with it and both times (next day) when I went back it was
> gone. Is there something running (debian) that gets rid of anything in /tmp
> or am I just loosing it?
>
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I'm guessing that cron would be whhat's cleaning out /tmp.
That's generally a good thing.
Try putting Firefox somewhere else (e.g. /home/tmp).

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