[95461] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Renaming partition (Was Missing files)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Sun Oct 18 21:10:47 1998
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 21:07:12 -0400
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: "Heltzel, Dennis" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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===== Original Message from "Heltzel, Dennis" <redhat-list@redhat.com> at
10/18/98 7:17 pm
>Yup, just rename the dir with the mv command:
>
>mv /tmp /stuff
>mkdir /tmp
>
>Note that it is never a good idea to put permanent stuff in a dir called
>tmp, after all, tmp means temporary, right ?
YES. please don't tell me this is the the solution you are going to live
with. After reading Ray's first response, I read the man page for tmpwatch.
I too have been sticking stuff in /tmp thinking it was safe.
Well I suggest an alternative, although I'd say Ray's were just as good.
Make a symbolic link to a directory elsewhere and put everything you want to
keep in there. tmpwatch will not follow symbolic links.
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Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
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