Re: Is /dev/shm needed?

Ryan Cumming (bodnar42@phalynx.dhs.org)
Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:56:17 -0800

On December 16, 2001 15:47, Adam Schrotenboer wrote:
> I may be wrong about /tmp as well, but I have come to think that it is data
> that ought be discarded after logout, and have sometimes considered writing
> a script for it in the login/logout scripts.

System daemons can legally use /tmp, and they may not apprechiate having
their files removed from underneath them everytime someone telnets in. ;)

-Ryan
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