Clearing tmp files

[NoOp]

On 10/16/2007 02:06 PM, Josef Wolf wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 09:53:30AM -0700, NoOp wrote:
>> On 10/12/2007 08:34 AM, sktsee wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:40 +0800, gup502 wrote:
> 
>> You might find this an interesting read:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/15179
>> 
>> Over on the OpenOffice lists there have been many reports of some
>> student losing an essay because OOo saves to /tmp & then /tmp gets wiped
>> on startup. Obvious fix is to simply made a directly in home and reset
>> the path in OOo (Tools|Options|OOo|Path) to the new temp directory.
> 
> I'd argue this to be a bug in OOo.  FHS specifies that applications should
> not put into /tmp anything that needs to survive reboots.  Applications
> should use /var/tmp for such things.

Oh I wouldn't argue with you - I think that there is a bug filed with
OOo as well, but can't find it just now.

However, note that the bug I referred to in Ubuntu is:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/15179
and not OOo. I just brought up the OOo problem as I've seen the problem
arise on numerous occasions on the OOo users mail list.