On Tue, Sep 10 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 10/09/2013 18:57, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> > There's rules of thumb about this that will always work: >>> > >>> > No object in /tmp can be expected to survive successive invocations of >>> > the program that created the object, and never survive a reboot; >>> > No object in /var/tmp can be expected to survive a reboot >>> > >>> > The best place for temp files, ironically, is ~ >> I set tmpwatch and wipe_tmp so that files survive in /tmp and /var/tmp >> for a month. >> >> I don't like ~ for temp files since on some, admittedly rare, occasions >> I actually use the gnome gui file manager and don't want a huge ~. I >> have long ago created ~/tmp (also cleaned after a month by tmpwatch) so >> the only problem is breaking the habit of placing short-term files in >> /tmp instead of ~/tmp. > > OK, I get it. I'd write all that temp stuff to /var/tmp so it doesn't > get nuked by something cleverly trying to manage /tmp. But A. McKinnon says (above) that an always valid rule of thumb is "No object in /var/tmp can be expected to survive a reboot". >> I realize that habit is bad for my (system's) health, but still find it >> hard to break. I shall try again. Perhaps this is very mild form of >> what intelligent smokers feel :-). > > There is no such thing as an intelligent smoker; there are only stupid > smokers :-) > > I'm a two-packs-a-day man myself, I speak from many years experience! I promise not to mention it again, but you really should quit. I consider one of my contributions to computer architecture is being at least a little influential in getting Per Stenstrom to quit. At the time he was a rising star, who I felt would contribute greatly if he didn't get sick from the cigs. He did quit and has certainly contributed. allan
