On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:55:28PM +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Now /var/tmp should be "more persistent" which we
don't need,
Correct, using /var/tmp is wrong and a mistake.
IMO, advising people to modify their code to using /var/tmp instead of /tmp
is absurd and evidence of ignorance towards traditional use of /tmp and the
FHS.
Well, not just FHS, but "traditional" usage within Red Hat and Fedora. For
as long as I can remember, /tmp has had a 10-day retention and /var/tmp
30-day.
Does that matter?
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Matthew Miller <mattdm(a)mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- Instructional & Research Computing Services
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences