sac writes:

>  I've seen OpenBSD and some other variants of Unix clearing /tmp on
>  bootup. But FreeBSD doesn't seem to do so.

        Look deeper, Grasshopper.

huff@>> grep -i tmp /etc/rc.conf
clear_tmp_enable="YES"  # Clear /tmp at startup.

        This is set to NO in /etc/defaults/rc,conf.
        As to why ... for their own reasons some folks put things in
/tmp they don't want to vanish.



                                        Robert Huff
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