Clearing tmp files

[Brian McKee]

On Fri, 2007-12-10 at 08:04 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:40 +0800, gup502 wrote:
> > Is that required in
> > Ubuntu?
> 
> No, /tmp is an virtual filesystem that just exists in RAM and is
> therefore cleaned on every reboot.

IIRC - some versions of Mandrake do that.   Can speed some things up,
but it can cause grief too when programs expect to be able to make
really big tmp files.  Ubuntu (at least Dapper anyway) doesn't do that.

Personally, I wouldn't worry about it.  My /tmp is about 900k after over
a year on this box....

Brian
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