[95503] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Renaming partition (Was Missing files)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Heltzel, Dennis)
Mon Oct 19 07:31:55 1998
From: "Heltzel, Dennis" <DHeltzel@IKON.com>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 07:31:55 -0400
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This is just my opinion, but I've been using UNIX in various flavors for 10+
years and I *never* put anything in /tmp and expect it to be there more that
a few minutes. The classic use for /tmp is to house temporary files like
editor image backups (vi, emacs, etc.), or to put temporary files from
processes that need to store intermediate results in a file for some reason
( a situation that can usually, but not always, be avoided with good
programming).
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Galpin [SMTP:cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com]
> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 1998 9:07 PM
> To: Heltzel, Dennis
> Subject: RE: Renaming partition (Was Missing files)
>
> ===== 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.
>
> --
> Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
>
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