Re: /tmp

Am 27. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Eric "Shubes" so:

> I'm guessing that cron would be whhat's cleaning out /tmp.

The rule of thumb is that /tmp can be cleaned out whenever. I believe the
filesystem heirachy claimed it would be at boot time and that that has
carried over to LSB.

Most distros clean /tmp at boot. Many of us need to clean /tmp by hand
because once or twice a year isn't enough ( not to mention those that take
a couple of years to get around to rebooting... ).

> That's generally a good thing.
> Try putting Firefox somewhere else (e.g. /home/tmp).

*ack*, *ack*

/me drinks some water to fix that cough.

:)

/home is for home directories. If no one has a login ID of 'tmp' there
shouldn't be a /home/tmp :).

I guess one is free[1] to use /home/tmp, though...

/var/tmp is OK, but watch that you don't run /var or / out of room.

Howabout $HOME/tmp :), that's why you have a home directory :).

apt-get install firefox # to fix the original issue ;-)

[1] see the random sig that popped up on this email :)

ciao,

der.hans
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