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On Tue, Sep 10 2013, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 10/09/2013 18:57, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote: |
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>> Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>>> > There's rules of thumb about this that will always work: |
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>>> > No object in /tmp can be expected to survive successive invocations of |
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>>> > the program that created the object, and never survive a reboot; |
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>>> > No object in /var/tmp can be expected to survive a reboot |
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>>> > The best place for temp files, ironically, is ~ |
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>> I set tmpwatch and wipe_tmp so that files survive in /tmp and /var/tmp |
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>> for a month. |
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>> I don't like ~ for temp files since on some, admittedly rare, occasions |
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>> I actually use the gnome gui file manager and don't want a huge ~. I |
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>> have long ago created ~/tmp (also cleaned after a month by tmpwatch) so |
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>> the only problem is breaking the habit of placing short-term files in |
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>> /tmp instead of ~/tmp. |
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> OK, I get it. I'd write all that temp stuff to /var/tmp so it doesn't |
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> get nuked by something cleverly trying to manage /tmp. |
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But A. McKinnon says (above) that an always valid rule of thumb is |
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"No object in /var/tmp can be expected to survive a reboot". |
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>> I realize that habit is bad for my (system's) health, but still find it |
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>> hard to break. I shall try again. Perhaps this is very mild form of |
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>> what intelligent smokers feel :-). |
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> There is no such thing as an intelligent smoker; there are only stupid |
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> smokers :-) |
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> I'm a two-packs-a-day man myself, I speak from many years experience! |
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I promise not to mention it again, but you really should quit. |
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I consider one of my contributions to computer architecture is being at |
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least a little influential in getting Per Stenstrom to quit. At the |
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time he was a rising star, who I felt would contribute greatly if he |
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didn't get sick from the cigs. He did quit and has certainly |
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contributed. |
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allan |