Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

[John Aldrich]

On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > Has there ever been a satisfactory explanation of WHY they
> > put PERMANENT stuff in a temporary directory? It seems
> > rather loco to me to put ANYTHING you want to keep in a
> > TEMP directory... :-)
> >         John
> 
> Is it something that is overwritten at each boot?  Just a thought.
> 
I dunno.  I wish someone from Mandrakesoft would speak up and explain
their thinking on this.... I'm sure they had a logical reason for
doing so, which, upon thinking about it we'd all slap our head and
say "Doh! How obvious!" :-)
        John