Quoting Ciaran Johnston (cj at nologic.org):
> Thomas Bridge said:
> > While most Linux distro's don't seem to mind, many UNIX systems will
> > delete the contents of /tmp on a reboot,
>> Debian does this.
By default. FYI:
:r /etc/default/rcS
#
# Defaults for the boot scripts in /etc/rcS.d
#
# Time files in /tmp are kept in days.
TMPTIME=7
# Set to yes if you want sulogin to be spawned on bootup
SULOGIN=no
# Set to no if you want to be able to login over telnet/rlogin
# before system startup is complete (as soon as inetd is started)
DELAYLOGIN=yes
# Set UTC=yes if your system clock is set to UTC (GMT), and UTC=no if
# not.
UTC=yes
# Set VERBOSE to "no" if you would like a more quiet bootup.
VERBOSE=yes
# Set EDITMOTD to "no" if you don't want /etc/motd to be editted
# automatically
EDITMOTD=yes
# Set FSCKFIX to "yes" if you want to add "-y" to the fsck at startup.
FSCKFIX=no
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