Op zaterdag 21 januari 2012 23:59:35 schreef Christian Lohmaier: > On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Oliver Burger > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about > > those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories: > > /tmp/ > > /var/tmp/ > > Those are historically grown ... /tmp is the really temporary one, > discarded when rebooting, while /var/tmp is for stuff that is to be > preserved after a reboot. > > So while /tmp nowadays frequently is on a ramdisk, /var/tmp is not. > > ciao > Christian
ah yes, that is true, thinking of amavisd, for example... it may be temporary, but after reboot the email will continue to be checked...
