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From: Evan Champion <evanc@synapse.net>
To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
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Subject: Re: misc/5054: /tmp not nuked on reboot
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On Sat, 15 Nov 1997, Steve Price wrote:

> IMHO, cleaning /tmp or any files for that matter without me, the system
> administrator, having explicitly told it to do so smells of anarchy.  I
> wished I had the power to reverse such things as this, but this seems
> to be a policy decision that the core group has made and the best place
> to plead your case is with them.  I'm pretty sure that at least Jordan
> is following this thread and will chime in at any moment and clue both
> of us in as to why this functionality was removed. :)

My guess is that it was removed because people who didn't understand what
/tmp was for were losing files.  Otherwise there really wasn't any reason
to change it :-)

> Please don't take this the wrong way.  I tried to offer you an alternative
> solution that would accomplish what you wanted.  If my solution does not
> suit your needs, feel free to develop your own or revert back to the
> legacy way of doing things.  As for getting this change reverted in
> FreeBSD, we will have to wait and see what some of the others have
> to say.

I know that this is something that a lot of people like and a lot of
people hate.  Fortunately, that is why /etc/rc.conf exists, so that you
can configure what _you_ want the system to do.  What I'd like to see is
for this to become an option in /etc/rc.conf.  That way those who want it
can and those who don't just don't set that option.

Evan