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- From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
- Subject: Re: Why does OW leave all kind of garbage in tmp?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.232754.5450@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
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- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 92 23:27:54 GMT
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- chris@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Chris Johnston) writes:
- > Some people suggest "rm -rf /tmp/". Is it ok to remove
- >"/tmp/lost+found/" ?
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- It's OK if it's a RAM (tmpfs) filesystem or if you newfs it in /etc/rc.local.
- Otherwse it's probably a bad idea.
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- Worse, you should avoid removing .X11-unix or .NeWS-unix if someone is using
- X11 or NeWS on the console, as otherwise they won't be able to start any
- new local windows...
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- Lee
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