Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

sm-discuss - Re: [SM-Discuss] sorcery tmp direcrtory tree

sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Public SourceMage Discussion List

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] sorcery tmp direcrtory tree
  • Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:00:28 +1100

On Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:31, Casey Harkins wrote:
> There was a discussion about this a while back. IIRC, lsb or fhs requires
> that /tmp be cleaned at boot and /var/tmp not be cleaned at boot. If the
> user wants to change that behavior, that's great, but I think we should
> default to this as a distro. Now, if we make /tmp tmpfs by default, then
> that might be sufficient to meet the cleaning at boot requirement. Having
> an init script do this (for those not using tmpfs) wouldn't hurt either.

future ISO's will default to a tmpfs /tmp of 256MB , if users wish otherwise
it is a single line change in their fstab.
I think ISO's in the range 0.6 -> 0.9 had the tmpfs mounts commented out in
the installed fstab.

Hamish

Attachment: pgp6WhzY3Q_KP.pgp
Description: signature



  • Re: [SM-Discuss] sorcery tmp direcrtory tree, Hamish Greig, 03/01/2004

Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page