On 11/03/2011 15:18, McKown, John wrote:
On a strict reading of the above, you can't rely on a /tmp file
existing "between invocations of the program", in other words when
a file isn't actively held open by a process. This would break many
many shell scripts I've read and written over the years
On Friday, March 11, 2011 10:15:49 am Richard Troth wrote:
> Mack said:
> > You might also note that according to the FHS, /tmp is only supposed to
> > be used by system processes. User-level processes are supposed to use
> > /var/tmp. But of course, many programs violate that. Still, you might
>
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> On 11/03/2011 14:23, McKown, John wrote:
> &
Mack said:
> You might also note that according to the FHS, /tmp is only supposed to be
> used by system processes. User-level processes are supposed to use /var/tmp.
> But of course, many programs violate that. Still, you might want to be
> cleaning up both directories.
Yes ... keep an eye on /
Many Linux installations use "tmpfs" for /tmp. Personally, I do that
as a rule. (All rules are subject to exception, and I do that too.)
The advantage of tmpfs is that it magically cleans up every time you
reboot. You can get the same effect from explicit deletion of /tmp
contents when the syst
On Friday, March 11, 2011 09:43:47 am Alan Cox wrote:
> > "industry standard" is. One thing mentioned by a person boiled down to
> > "delete all the files in /tmp which belong to a specific user when the
> > last process which is running with that UID terminates" (rephrased by
> > me). This got me
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> Subject: Re: cleaning up /tmp
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> I've been known to drop files in /tmp for later
Just to clarify, this was based on the OE reference - i.e Unix Systems
Services running under z/OS rather than zLinux.
Shane ...
On Sat, Mar 12th, 2011 at 1:44 AM, I wrote:
> Have you considered skulker ?.
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On 11/03/2011 14:23, McKown, John wrote:
There's a discussion going on over on the MVS-OE forum (which I
started) about the /tmp subdirectory. It's gone away from my original
towards how to keep it clean. So I thought I'd ask the UNIX wizards
over here what the "industry standard" is.
I don't s
I've been known to drop files in /tmp for later collection - by myself or
others.
Have you considered skulker ?.
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> "industry standard" is. One thing mentioned by a person boiled down to
> "delete all the files in /tmp which belong > to a specific user when the last
> process which is running with that UID terminates" (rephrased by me). This
> got me
That I wonder consider as brave. There are cases where t
There's a discussion going on over on the MVS-OE forum (which I started) about
the /tmp subdirectory. It's gone away from my original towards how to keep it
clean. So I thought I'd ask the UNIX wizards over here what the "industry
standard" is. One thing mentioned by a person boiled down to "del
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