On Sat, Jul 01, 2006 at 07:40:18PM +0200, Paul de Weerd wrote: > | I always symlink /var/tmp to my /tmp partition and mount /tmp with: > | nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,async - as it gets wiped at boot anyway. > > Not only at boot, see daily(8) : > > - Removes scratch and junk files from /tmp and /var/tmp. > > But anyway, /var/tmp is meant to be the temporary storage area that > *survives* reboots, it's actually used for this purpose, it's where vi > stores its recovery files. If you ever reboot your machine when a > stubborn user has ignored the warnings (perhaps wasn't at his terminal > at that time) shutdown(8) sends out, he'll be able to recover his very > important document if /var/tmp is not wiped at boot. >
Nope. I maybe just a stupid list lurking user, but I did read /etc/daily and it performs similar sanity checks on /tmp as to what it wipes. If vi is an '80's song, it would be singing "I will survive!" And of course I use vim, what else is there????? -- Craig Skinner | http://www.kepax.co.uk | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
