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11-16-2004, 02:01 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: india
Posts: 13
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/var/tmp folder
when does linux clears the /tmp/var folder,because i have some important files in /var directory.that has to be there.
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11-16-2004, 06:26 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,149
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/var/tmp is sometimes just a symlink to /tmp... and at times /tmp is cleared out at bootup.. My suggestion, don't keep important files in /tmp... /var is okay, /tmp is not.
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10-02-2006, 02:34 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Denmark
Distribution: RH
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/var/tmp
Right! Don't keep "important" or "permanent" files in /tmp or /var/tmp. I once installed a commercial database system (not Oracle or the likes) on a MIPS System V box. Everytime the OS was booted, the system didn't work, and it took some time to discover that the DB kept its licence-file on /tmp (easy and well documented)... but the /tmp was a RAM-filesystem!
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10-02-2006, 06:43 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 24,149
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Originally Posted by olec
Right! Don't keep "important" or "permanent" files in /tmp or /var/tmp. I once installed a commercial database system (not Oracle or the likes) on a MIPS System V box. Everytime the OS was booted, the system didn't work, and it took some time to discover that the DB kept its licence-file on /tmp (easy and well documented)... but the /tmp was a RAM-filesystem!
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That's just shitty coding if you want my opinion. If I was the project manager or QA tester, that wouldn't have passed for me.  |
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10-02-2006, 07:10 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Denmark
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/var/tmp
Agree! (But I did not write the DB, I only made a fix).
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