From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 12 5:13:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0CA837BD41 for ; Fri, 12 May 2000 05:13:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Fri, 12 May 2000 13:13:16 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA01472; Fri, 12 May 2000 13:13:15 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 13:13:15 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Bart Lateur Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: PostgreSQL boot question In-Reply-To: <3924ebda.9815427@relay.skynet.be> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 May 2000, Bart Lateur wrote: [ Deleting leftver crud from /tmp... ] > This doesn't look right: it's too much manual work. Agreed. > Does this mean I'll have to do that every time my server crashes? Can't > the file automatically be deleted at startup, before the postgreSQL > demon starts up? You might want to look at using mfs to hold your /tmp directory. This has advantages (it's really temporary). Worthwhile considering nodev, nosuid, nosymfollow to the list of /tmp mount options too. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Whenever I see a dog salivate I get an insatiable urge to ring a bell. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message