Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 09:39:27 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/3605: New /etc/rc not clearing /tmp Message-ID: <19970712093927.OO54538@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <9707101048.AA17785@wavehh.hanse.de>; from Martin Cracauer on Jul 10, 1997 12:48:39 %2B0200 References: <199705191725.NAA23220@lakes.water.net> <19970520002537.XH34654@uriah.heep.sax.de> <9707101048.AA17785@wavehh.hanse.de>
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As Martin Cracauer wrote: > A case a friend of mine encoutered once is that you change your scsi > disks so that they are numbered in a different order. You then mount a > wrong filesystem under /tmp and its contents get deleted. You can wire your disks if you want. > Conclusion: > ----------- > > To rc.conf, add two variables to control: > a) "cleanup on boottime", yes/no > b) regular cleanup, the variable's value should be the number of days > a file needs to be untouched. Maybe deletion should optionally > happen on the base of atime, not mtime. I could agree with this. The bugs list is probably not the best forum to ask this kind of design questions however. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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