Andrew Suffield wrote: > It's broken then. Nothing should be putting CD images in /tmp. That's > a textbook example of what /var/tmp is for. It also won't work on a > stock install of most linux platforms these days, which use tmpfs - > few enough boxes can fit an entire CD image into memory. really? I installed stock debian not long ago, and tmp is still on /, only /dev(udev) and /dev/shm are tmpfs. Anyway, the problem is how do we provide a reasonable solution for people on nfs, which is not too uncommon in the unix/linux world? > tmpreaper is to clean up stale locks and stuff like that. People > caught *filling* /tmp get their accounts deleted, because they broke > the box. On my corprate shared redhat box, /tmp contains a million files (some very large) or so. /var/tmp has only a handful. Guess we are all damned. > > -- > .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield > : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | > `. `' | > `- -><- | > Derek
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