James Wilkinson: >> 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. Timothy Murphy: > 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 Wasn't it James who said he used tmpfs for his /tmp? That's using RAM, not disk, for /tmp, so theirs would go away on a reboot. > Is there some setting for this? Ordinarily, /tmp file get cleared by a cron job that checks for files that haven't been accessed recently. There's a configurable time period for when something is considered old enough to be deleted. -- (Currently testing FC5, but still running FC4, if that's important.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
