On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> I have been mysteriously losing files, but only from /tmp, and it is pissing me
> off. Does /tmp periodically clear out its files? If so, how do I turn this off,
> and *why was there no information stating this happens*?
/tmp stands for "temporary" which means that everything in this
directory will be deleted soon on a regular basis. This is also
the first directory to look at if you're having disk shortage.
Unfortunately, I don't know exactly how to switch off this
periodic purging :-(. I think there is a file on /etc that you
can edit to configure this behavior.
Julius
