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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.sdsmt.edu!news.mid.net!newsfeeder.gi.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.spb.su!satisfy.kiae.su!glukr!info.elvisti.kiev.ua!office.elvisti.kiev.ua!stesin From: stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) Subject: Re: MFS - Why? X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2+] Sender: news@info.elvisti.kiev.ua (News Subsystem) Organization: ElVisti Information center Message-ID: <DtB9D2.1oC@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> References: <AEn4jRr0u3@qsar.chem.msu.su> <npX7tgO@quack.kfu.com> <4pssd4$j31@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Nntp-Posting-Host: office.elvisti.kiev.ua Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 18:15:02 GMT Lines: 35 J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote: : 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. Dear Joerg, I'm ready to 100% agree with you -- as soon as your approach will be commited to be a FreeBSD "official" one, AND documented in the hier(7) manpage. Wouldn't you mind doing this minor thing, please? (Just today hier(7) clearly states that MFS /tmp _is_ FreeBSD approved way to do things). : -- : 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. ;-) -- With best regards -- Andrew Stesin. +380 (44) 2760188 +380 (44) 2713457 +380 (44) 2713560 "You may delegate authority, but not responsibility." Frank's Management Rule #1.