From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Sep 29 8:43:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C62837B424 for ; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8TFh9j11610; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:43:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com( 207.76.205.64) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma011607; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:42:44 -0700 Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8TFgiR47030; Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:42:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 08:42:44 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200009291542.e8TFgiR47030@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jim@siteplus.net Subject: Re: Space In-Reply-To: <009701c029a3$a97689e0$52736520@siteplus.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >From: "Jim Weeks" >Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 19:27:23 -0400 >In the last episode Jared said, >> Funny, alot of people told me to do that. I already have! Although i put >it in /var/tmp :) >This is warned against in "The Complete FreeBSD" since /var/tmp is handled >differently. I believe it clears itself ever so often. I don't have a copy >handy or I would give you the explanation. Excerpts from "man hier": /tmp/ temporary files, usually a mfs(8) memory-based filesystem (the contents of /tmp are usually NOT preserved across a system re- boot) ... /var/ multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files ... tmp/ temporary files that are kept between system reboots vi.recover/ the directory where recovery files are stored [end of excerpts form "man hier" -- dhw] Please note the distinction with respect to system reboots. (Also, if /tmp is implemented as an MFS, specifying "clear_tmp_enable" in /etc/rc.conf is a tad redundant.) Cheers, david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com UNIX System Administrator Desk: 650/577-7158 TIE: 8/499-7158 Cell: 650/759-0823 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message