Yes, Ken was chatting to me offline about it.
It definitely depends on the flavour of Unix (and local variations) as to
what happens.
I managed to embarrass myself (only so slightly and on another Unix) by
copying something to /tmp and then rebooted... zappo!
I then thought... is there any standard?
On the RH Linux at work here, /tmp is just part of / so would not normally
get cleared out except for the odd cron job.
What happens if you set up a machine that dual boots solaris and Linux? This
is probably why the FAQ says that the temp filesystems of the two os's are
incompatible. However it can be done, albeit carefully.
- Jill.
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Jill Rowling
Snr Design Engineer & Unix System Administrator
Electronic Engineering Department, Aristocrat Technologies Australia
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
By "swapspace mounted as /tmp" I think Jill is referring to a system where
you have the same disk space available as both Unix file system space and
swap
space. Swap space contains memory information for processes and it doesn't
make sense for any of it to be preserved across reboots as all the processes
have died and restarted. Disk space you do want preserved across reboots,
but many systems clean out /tmp on startup. This is one of those
behaviours that can change from Linux to Linux, let alone Linux to
commercial flavours of Unix.
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