"rm -rf /tmp", now Evolution shows "(no folder displayed"
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"rm -rf /tmp", now Evolution shows "(no folder displayed"
so, I was doing some other things, and at the end of that, I did a quick "rm -rf /tmp" to clean out my /tmp folder.....well, just because.
Shortly after that, I fired up Evolution to check my email, and the app sits there, but seems dead. It won't respond to any menus or clicks, and the main panel displays "(No folder displayed)"
I'm running RH9, and Evolution 1.2.2-5.
I'm shocked that there would be something in /tmp that any app would expect to be there!
Or, am I chasing a Red Herring, and is something else going on?
Distribution: Slackware 10, Fedora Core 3, Mac OS X
Posts: 617
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sorry for appearing so condescending. As far as i knew, rm -rf /tmp will remove /tmp and all the files/directories below it.
sorry,
Alex
P.S. Evolution always did seem quite cool to me. Virtual folders, inbuilt support for GnuPG and other nifty stuff. Unfortunately I love my mac too much...
oh, no worries. I didn't take it wrong at all. I didn't actually do a "rm -rf /tmp", I'm sure...I probably did a "cd /tmp" and then a "rm -rf *", but between the thoughts and the typing, it just came out wrong. But, its important to be very clear on this stuff!
Thanks for the suggestion--If I really did remove /tmp, I'd be hosed!
I've been dabbling in Linux for a year or so, and I'm finally ready to switch and make it my primary system....so its time to step up the level of knowledge. Unfortunately, things like this are still very frustrating, at best.
I then ran Evolution, and it asked me to go through all the config stuff again, which I did.
So, I copied ~/evolution-save back to ~/evolution.
I was then able to see all my email, but all the account settings where hosed. I went to Tools -> Settings..., and had to re-enter my email settings, and now I'm able to get my mail.
But, I'm pretty bummed that I wasn't able to restore my email settings. This seems like a pretty big problem....am I wrong about that?
/tmp may seem a dir: of trivial value, but its not. Every program that runs on the system creates a file or folder(if needed) for the effecient operation. Evolution, Thunderbird, Mozilla Firefox etc.. are only some of them. Files are deleted by the respective programs after their usage. You must understand that even SSH sessions wont work properly if /tmp is not present. Also folders beginning named 'keyring-XXX' which exist for the effecient operation of the OS exist here. The temporary contents in /tmp are deleted at the time of reboot, as set in the rc.sysinit script.
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