K Pfeiffer wrote:
Kevin McLauchlan writes: [...]
From the LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell Guide: "The /tmp directory is for the storage of temporary files. The contents are deleted on every system boot."
But I don't know if this is always the case.
You can set that delete-tmp-on-reboot option using YaST. The old yast has it in the edit rc.config menu The new one has it as one of the sysconfig (?) options.
There is one limitation: the `sticky bit' is switched on. (Notice the t at the end of the first column.) This means a user can only delete or rename files owned by himself. This prohibits users peskering each other by removing the other one's temporary files."
-K
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