From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 5 12: 9:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com (pau-amma.whistle.com [207.76.205.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8EA115415 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:09:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id MAA40447; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:09:11 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 12:09:11 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199912052009.MAA40447@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, sean@dreamfire.net Subject: Re: Cleaning /tmp during boot In-Reply-To: <384AB0A7.75379294@dreamfire.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 10:36:23 -0800 >From: Sean-Paul Rees >Is it safe to clean /tmp during the boot process, before all of the >packages and daemons and stuff load? Well, I normally configure machines running FreeBSD to use mfs for /tmp. Among other attributes, that tends to enforce the "cleaning" of /tmp fairly aggressively. I've not noticed anything unpleasant that could be attributed to that "aggressive" cleaning.... Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (888) 347-0197 FAX: (650) 372-5915 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message