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Author: Bill Jonas
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: /tmp
On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 10:02:35PM -0700, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> Have you been rebooting between downloads? It's been
> years since I've looked closely at that, but the usual
> process on Unix systems I've dealt with (many) is to
> delete everything in /tmp when a system is rebooted.


On a Debian (like Joe said he has) woody system:

$ grep tmp /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh |head -1
# Wipe /tmp (and don't erase `lost+found', `quota.user' or `quota.group')!

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