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

[Chmouel Boudjnah]

Steve Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On 06 Jul 2000 11:21:29 -0700, you wrote:
> 
> >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/
> 
> When I boot Mandrake 7.1, the run list says at one point "clean-up
> /tmp". So /tmp is cleared out on every boot. /root/tmp is where the X
> files are that you shouldn't delete.

yes right if you have the variable :

CLEAN_TMP=1

in /etc/sysconfig/system set.

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