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Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> posted 4791F359.1050500@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:55:53 -0500: |
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> I think that this would probably warrant an elog. Sure, anybody who |
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> knows the "correct" way to admin unix doesn't put anything important in |
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> /tmp - but educating our users before blowing away their data isn't a |
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> bad thing. We shouldn't assume our users are idiots, but this is an |
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> obscure enough piece of admin knowledge that I think that users will be |
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> impacted by the change. |
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Obscure? It's the directory name (says another with both /tmp and /var/ |
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tmp on tmpfs). How much less obscure can you get than announcing it |
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every time the path is referenced or specified? Who could reasonably |
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argue that tmp doesn't mean tmp? |
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Never-the-less, an elog wouldn't hurt, and the implementation cost is |
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pretty low as well, so I'd say just elog it. That way, there's two |
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warnings to point to instead of just one (the name of the dir), for the |
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inevitable complaints. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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