James Wilkinson wrote: > One obvious thing to note: data in /tmp gets wiped each time you reboot > the machine. I actually find this really helpful -- I find I do create a > number of temporary files which won't need to last beyond a reboot. This certainly isn't true on my laptop, which I boot daily, eg [tim@martha ~]$ ls -ls /tmp/gfaq.pdf 344 -rw------- 1 tim tim 344131 Oct 10 12:56 /tmp/gfaq.pdf Is there some setting for this? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
