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I'm running CentOS. I have a directory named /tmp/cim. I know that files under /tmp directory are automatically deleted after a certain period (if they are not modified). I want to keep /tmp/cim and all it's files no matter when they were last modified. How do i do that?
I think there's a script run out of cron that cleans out /tmp periodically (on my box it's /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch, which is run by cron once a day). You would probably have to modify it to not touch that particular directory.
This begs, the question, though: why on earth are you keeping data you want to preserve in /tmp?
The whole point of a tmp folder is that it is not persistent. If you want something to stay, you need to put it somewhere that is not under a tmp folder.
Last edited by wpeckham; 01-01-2012 at 04:05 PM.
Reason: spellchecker in my fingers failed.
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