Tim wrote: > 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. OK, I probably mis-understood the posting. I know that a lot of Unix systems do delete the contents of /tmp on re-booting, and I was just pointing out that this is not true of Fedora. >> 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. Yes, I don't have any very old files in /tmp, so that seems to be working fine for me. Maybe I should apply it to some other directories, eg Desktop! Thanks for the enlightenment. -- 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
