Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-11 Thread Cliff Pratt
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 10.12.2012 um 18:01 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: >> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:58 PM, wrote: > > i would suggest another point of view - what should use tmp? > Users, Admins speak humans or scripts, apps speak machines? > It's for whatever you lik

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-11 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 10.12.2012 um 18:01 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:58 PM, wrote: >> Rudi Ahlers wrote: >>> >>> What else do you use it for? >> >> I think John intended the cmt with >> >>mark "temporary files are temporary? who'd'a thunk it?" >> >> ___

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Peter Eckel
Hi Mogens, > What is "important"? valid question. I would define 'important' or rather 'valuable' (in a material or non-material sense) in terms of reproducability. If it costs you (personal) time, effort or money to reproduce them, or if the data are irreprocible to reproduce and might be

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Mogens Kjaer
On 12/10/2012 06:01 PM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Probably. But I've seen people using /tmp to store rather important > stuff, which is why I asked the question - to get clarity. What is "important"? I keep a "yum list >/tmp/yum.lst" in /tmp. That's important to me, as I often search for packages. I

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: > From: Jerry Geis > > > You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should > be less often (never?) cleared. cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch flags=-umc /usr/sbin/t

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Peter Eckel
On 10.12.2012, at 18:01, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:58 PM, wrote: >> Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: >>> From: Jerry Geis >>> >>> You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and >>> should be less often (n

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Rudi Ahlers
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:58 PM, wrote: > Rudi Ahlers wrote: > Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: >> From: Jerry Geis >> >> You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and >> should be less often (never?) cleared. > > cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatc

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread m . roth
Rudi Ahlers wrote: Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: > From: Jerry Geis > > You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and > should be less often (never?) cleared. cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch flags=-umc /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags"

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Rudi Ahlers
>>> Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: From: Jerry Geis You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?) cleared. >>> >>> >>> >>> cat /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch >>> flags=-umc >>> /usr/sbin/tmpwatch "$flags" -x /tmp/.X11-u

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 10.12.2012 um 16:05 schrieb Nicolas Thierry-Mieg: > Leon Fauster wrote: >> Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: >>> From: Jerry Geis >>> >>> >>> You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be >>> less often (never?) cleared. >> >> >> >> cat /etc/cron.daily/

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: >> From: Jerry Geis >> >>> Yep - got me. Luckily I had other copied of the items. Just not on the >>> machine I needed >>> it at the time. >> >> You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be >> less often

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 10.12.2012 um 11:22 schrieb John Doe: > From: Jerry Geis > >> Yep - got me. Luckily I had other copied of the items. Just not on the >> machine I needed >> it at the time. > > You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be > less often (never?) cleared. cat /e

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-10 Thread John Doe
From: Jerry Geis > Yep - got me. Luckily I had other copied of the items. Just not on the > machine I needed > it at the time. You also have '/var/tmp' that is expected to survive reboots and should be less often (never?) cleared. JD ___ CentOS mail

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-08 Thread Jerry Geis
On 12/08/2012 06:11 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > Am 07.12.2012 19:55, schrieb Jerry Geis: >> Is there something that "automatically" removes files in the /tmp >> directory on a scheduled basis? Perhaps like at the start of the month >> or something. > yes, tmpwatch > >> I had a number of files st

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-07 Thread Eero Volotinen
2012/12/7 Jerry Geis : > Is there something that "automatically" removes files in the /tmp > directory on a scheduled basis? Perhaps like at the start of the month > or something. > I am on CentOS 6? tmpwatch? -- Eero ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@cent

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-07 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 07 Dec 2012 13:55:58 -0500 Jerry Geis wrote: > Is there something that "automatically" removes files in the /tmp > directory on a scheduled basis? Perhaps like at the start of the month > or something. /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvi

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-07 Thread Jerry Geis
> /tmp is generally cleared out on reboot. I checked that and the couple machines had been up for 16 days and 23 days. Jerry ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-07 Thread Larry Martell
On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > Is there something that "automatically" removes files in the /tmp > directory on a scheduled basis? Perhaps like at the start of the month > or something. > I am on CentOS 6? > > I had a number of files stored there and they are just gone. Very o

[CentOS] /tmp directory

2012-12-07 Thread Jerry Geis
Is there something that "automatically" removes files in the /tmp directory on a scheduled basis? Perhaps like at the start of the month or something. I am on CentOS 6? I had a number of files stored there and they are just gone. Very odd. Jerry ___ Ce

RE: [CentOS] Tmp directory and sticky

2008-09-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob Hoffman <> scribbled on Monday, September 15, 2008 8:18 AM: > But the chmods I did with winscp will not take effect (they do on other > directories) so I manually ran chmod 1777 on the tmp folder. Did you do a Ctrl-R to refresh the view in WinSCP? I've been caught with that a few times befo

[CentOS] Tmp directory and sticky

2008-09-14 Thread Bob Hoffman
I noticed after my install that the tmp directory was A- not a sticky B- still executable I went and changed etc/fstab to add loop,noexec,nosuid,rw, which I hope is the right thing to do. I rebooted and it looks like it worked. When doing an ls -l on the main directory, the tmp folder lit up al