[Mageia-dev] Too many tmp directories

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op zaterdag 21 januari 2012 23:59:35 schreef Christian Lohmaier:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Oliver Burger
> 
> <oliver.bgr at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > while searching for some strange KDE behaviour (see bug 107 about
> > those icons), I found at least three different tmp directories:
> > /tmp/
> > /var/tmp/
> 
> Those are historically grown ... /tmp is the really temporary one,
> discarded when rebooting, while /var/tmp is for stuff that is to be
> preserved after a reboot.
> 
> So while /tmp nowadays frequently is on a ramdisk, /var/tmp is not.
> 
> ciao
> Christian

ah yes, that is true, thinking of amavisd, for example...

it may be temporary, but after reboot the email will continue to be checked...