[SLL] Anybody have any idea of what I will typically break by initializing /tmp at bootup?

[Brian Lane]

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Chuck Wolber wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Xeno Campanoli wrote:
> 
>> I noticed once I stopped using a common /tmp area I was able to get all 
>> my parallel installs of various Ubuntus to work.  But I wonder what 
>> typically gets kept over there?  It seems to me, given the original 
>> intent, that /tmp should be able to be initialized at boot without 
>> breaking things if the distro is working reasonably...???
> 
> Too many things to mention. You don't need /tmp to be persistent across 
> reboots. You can make it a ramdisk if you want.
> 

If you are clearing it yourself, you do need to be careful at what point
you are clearing it. It will need to be very early in the boot process,
otherwise you will see breakage.

If you are using a common /tmp and seeing problems on bootup it may be
that some apps are checking for existing files/sockets/etc. in there.
I'd consider this to be a broken program if that is the case.

Brian

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