On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 01:29 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Thomas F. O'Connell" <tfo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > But cleaning out /tmp seems to be a part of institutional practice on > > Linux, > > I'm unconvinced of that. A quick test on Fedora Core 4 shows that > random files in /tmp survive reboot, and any moment of thought would > show why users would object to a blanket cleanout policy. ... > I think what you've got is a rogue, broken mountnfs.sh script. I don't > even see any such script in my installation ... what is its provenance? It's a standard part of Debian, from the package initscripts. The default policy is to clean out /tmp at boot. This can be varied by changing TMPTIME in /etc/default/rcS. -- Oliver Elphick olly@xxxxxxxxxx Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== Do you want to know God? http://www.lfix.co.uk/knowing_god.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq
