From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JlJae-0007Qu-ST for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:59:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B10B0E064C; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:58:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts40.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 999BEE064C for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:58:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from toip3.srvr.bell.ca ([209.226.175.86]) by tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20080414075858.MXHX1625.tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net@toip3.srvr.bell.ca> for ; Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:58:58 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAGarAkhGManM/2dsb2JhbACBXqdD Received: from bas1-toronto01-1177659852.dsl.bell.ca (HELO sympatico.ca) ([70.49.169.204]) by toip3.srvr.bell.ca with SMTP; 14 Apr 2008 03:53:50 -0400 Received: by sympatico.ca (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:58:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:58:58 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Garbage in /tmp or /var/tmp Message-ID: <20080414075858.GJ5073@sympatico.ca> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1208104711.24284.18.camel@NOTE_GENTOO64.PHHEIMNETZ> <20080413200256.1392102f@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> <200804132228.22490.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <4802D14A.5060505@wrkhors.com> <20080414084656.25dfb0c1@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080414084656.25dfb0c1@loonquawl.digimed.co.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: d877a004-5c2d-4435-ad0b-d3e84dae5e32 X-Archives-Hash: 29c4eaf6bde4a12a5aff175fed2b4ae0 080414 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:36:42 -0400, Steven Lembark wrote: >> vi keep their in-work backups there, >> loosing the entire contents of /tmp after a crash can be painful. > Then they are broken, such data should be stored in /var/tmp. Vim defaults to keeping temporary files in /var/tmp , but Mutt defaults to /tmp & Vim called by Mutt does the same. Recently, I changed the default in .muttrc to use /var/tmp instead & as a result I can happily have /tmp cleared at every reboot, which reminds me, I need to delete many /var/tmp/mutt-* ... (smile). -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : purslow@chass.utoronto.ca ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list