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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MFS - Why?
Date: 14 Jun 1996 23:25:24 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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mi@zipnet.net (Mikhail Teterin) wrote:

> =You can achieve _this_ as well by symlinking /tmp to /var/tmp.
> 
> And get vi.recover wiped out by /tmp cleaner at the boot time?

Cleaning /tmp (or whatever) at boot time is stupid.  If you boot your
machine every 300 days or so, when gets /tmp cleaned?  (The bootup
cleaning of /tmp is one of the first things that gets killed on all my
machines almost immediately after installation.)

Get it cleaned by cron, and arrange for all files to live there long
enough after the last access.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)