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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-stuttgart.de!uniol!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: MFS - Why? Date: 22 Jun 1996 10:55:32 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4qgjf4$q31@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <AEn4jRr0u3@qsar.chem.msu.su> <npX7tgO@quack.kfu.com> <DsFL3q.4Hw@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> <4p23fh$n21@uriah.heep.sax.de> <4po5am$6hc@news.zipnet.net> <4pssd4$j31@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DtB9D2.1oC@info.elvisti.kiev.ua> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E stesin@elvisti.kiev.ua (Andrew V. Stesin) wrote: > : Cleaning /tmp (or whatever) at boot time is stupid. [...] > > : Get it cleaned by cron, and arrange for all files to live there long > : enough after the last access. > 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). This is a policy decision, which is normally up to the local system administrator. I could perhaps add another hint in /etc/rc, but even hier(7) speaks about ``usually''. That's a ``YMMV'' terminology. I think the boot time cleaning of /tmp used to have a long tradition in BSDs. But you are right, i will contribute my daily cleanup of /tmp and /var/tmp as a commented-out hint in /etc/daily. -- 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. ;-)