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Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:18:30 -0600
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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 12:44, Stephen John Smoogen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:31, Arnau Bria <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> may I disable /tmp cleaning after reboot? If yes, could some one tell
>> me what file do I have to modify?
>
> I would think this would break all kinds of software. Most programs
> assume /tmp is available to them to put in symlinks and other code
> where they are assuming 'cross' application access.

My apologies. I misunderstood the question completely. I thought you
wanted to disable /tmp on the system.. I somehow missed the word
cleaning. I think the answer Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison provided is
probably much better than whatever I was going on about :).




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Stephen J Smoogen.
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Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University.
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