On 10/29/2017 02:07 PM, Gene Heskett wrote:
Gene,
More of a security thing than anything else. The /tmp directory needs
to be publicly writable, but the sticky bit keeps other users from
monkeying with your files in that directory, ie - deleting or renaming
them.
Cheers,
Mark
Which I guess is why I've never noticed a problem other than whatever
creates it always creates it only with root perms. I'm the only user, no
others.
But it was always my understanding that tmp's were cleaned out in the
boot process. And thats not true either after observing stuff there that
was not created during this uptime.
<snippage>
I've never seen it done any other way, on either Linux or Unix. Must be
an oddball distro that someone cobbed together and for some reason got
rid of the security measures on the /tmp directory.
/tmp should be cleared out at reboot. It's only a partition in memory.
Unless it's that weird distro you're using and whoever created it made
it a regular partition on disk. Or, it's been hard linked to the
/var/tmp directory which does not get flushed on reboot.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Cheers,
Mark
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