Re: [expert] Deleted /tmp now X won't start

[Chmouel Boudjnah]

John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > ????? ok what is the question excatly i didn't followed the thread...
> Thanks. :-) The question was why you folks put the stuff in /tmp and
> later in /root/tmp that causes X to go bad when you delete it? You

we put nothing in /root/tmp only DrakConf has a stupid bug to leave
temporary files in ~/tmp/

> recall the hubub when 7.x came out and people started emptying their
> /tmp directory only to find they had to reinstall X to get it
> working again??? We recently had another case of that in here and
> told 'em the sad, sad story about how you DON'T delete stuff in /tmp
> or /root/tmp. :-) John

don't delete while running X server but you safely delete them before
running X (and it's what we do in the initscripts).

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