From: Jim Breton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2000 at 11:05:35AM -0500, 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*?
>
>
> Some (most?) distros, in the boot scripts, include commands to clean the
> /tmp directory.
In Redhat 5.2> you have logrotate, which erases files which are not
accessed in the last (by default, 10) days...
I learnt the hard way never to store rare mp3 on the /tmp...
Regards,
Luis Pinto
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