On Sat Apr 01 2000 at 02:14, Jim Breton wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 08:49:17PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote:
> > > > Some (most?) distros, in the boot scripts, include commands to clean the
> > > > /tmp directory.
> >
> > By the way, that is (was?) standard Unix behavior. It's not just that
> > some Linux distributions do that.
>
> Of course it is.
Err, no it isn't. Not a "standard" -- just convention. It's the sane
thing to do, and many people with years of experienced system
administration work have built all sorts of different tools to keep
/tmp sane (and mostly empty). For good reasons.
> But as you may have seen from some of the other
> responses, different distros have different means of accomplishing this.
> Some via boot scripts, some via cron jobs, etc..
>
> The point being: yes it's normal, but no I'm not going to list each and
> every method that me might need to look for (having not mentioned his
> distro). :)
Sure, more than one way to do anything with unix - not just the
"point'n'click" way of nt... :)
Cheers
Tony
