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[ILUG] /tmp not cleared on reboot

[ILUG] /tmp not cleared on reboot

Conor Wynne conor at discuskeeping.com
Wed Nov 29 20:18:38 GMT 2006




On 29/11/2006 20:15, "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote:

> Walter Faleiro wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Has anyone noticed the behaviour that /tmp is not cleared on reboots?
>> I just hard booted a system because it was stuck, and /tmp is full as the
>> previous runtime.
> 
> Which distro etc.... (echo "rm -rf /tmp" /etc/rc.local ;)

Don't think that's a good idea man.
It will remove the /tmp dir for a start ;-0

> 
> Note that quite a number of people (eg me ;) don't want /tmp to be
> cleared when the box suddenly reboots ;)
> 
> Greets,
>  Jeroen

Conor





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