On 04/02/2012 05:30 PM, M A Young wrote:
I agree why does this have to be forced on everyone. Admins have the ability to do this now if theyOn Mon, 2 Apr 2012, Lennart Poettering wrote:On Mon, 02.04.12 16:55, Steve Grubb (sgrubb@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:What about forensics? Any reboot erases information that might have been needed to see what happened during a break in./tmp is already volatile and cleaned up in regular intervals. The new clean-up on boot is just one tiny bit of additional clean-up.there is a big difference however with files in /tmp being around for 30 days, and the files being cleaned on a reboot, which might be necessary to get the system in a reliable enough state to do any forensics. This also means a big change in user experience as many will be expecting things in /tmp to remain there for a while before being deleted even if the system is restarted or crashes. Michael Young want to. --
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