On 6/6/07, Sean Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  If /tmp is mapped to memory, then the contents should be lost across reboots.
> This is not the case.  I have junk in /tmp going back to when I installed the
> machine.

Then your /tmp is definitely not in memory.  It's on the filesystem.
But it's easy to set it up to be in memory.  Try something like this
in your /etc/fstab:

tmpfs  /tmp  tmpfs  nodev,nosuid,noexec  0 0

There's an article here:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs3.html

-todd

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