X is black after removing all files /tmp files

[John Nilsson]

On tor, 2005-07-28 at 15:26 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> On 7/28/05, Serg Belokamen <serg.belokamen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just a tip for the future, /tmp on *nix type systems is quiet
> > different to temporary directory on Windows. /tmp stores session ID's,
> > etc. so deleteing them can cause your machine to frezee or in your
> > case screen blanking. Reboot will help (as a final resort if its a
> > server platform).
> That's handy to know.. thanks.
> BTW, does /tmp clean itself out every now and again, or only on reboot
> or "some other time" ?

If I understand this init system correctly /tmp is cleaned on boot after
mounting all filesystems.

I think a nicer sollution is to keep /tmp, /var/run and /var/lock on
tmpfs, not sure how much swap you'll need for this though.

/John