Questions tagged [tmp]
171 questions
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is /tmp guaranteed to exist?
Do I need to check & create /tmp before writing to a file inside of it?
Assume that no one has run sudo rm -rf /tmp because that's a very rare case
Ayush
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Is it safe to rm -rf /tmp/*?
This is something I used to do a lot on Windows, but after my recent fiasco I want to make sure. Is it safe to do
sudo rm -rf /tmp/*
?
ripper234
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Generic way to get temp path?
I heard about $TEMP and $TMP, but I think they are not standard for every distro.
As far as I know, the best way to get the temp dir is just /tmp, is there any distro that won't work using that path?
Perostek Balveda
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Prevent a directory in /tmp from being deleted
I often use the /tmp directory on my Linux machine for storing temporary files (e.g. PDFs from a site that wants me to download it first etc.) and I often create a directory with my username. But at every startup it (including all files) gets…
ummw
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Where can users create temporary files safely?
Once /tmp ideally should be reserved for the system, where can a user create temporary files safely?
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Small RAM-based /tmp
My VPS host's web interface for configuration gives me a dropdown box to set my /tmp.
The default is "16MB RAM" and the alternative is "harddisk".
Is it possible that having only 16MB of /tmp available could cause trouble for some software? Or not?
themirror
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Create a persistent temp directory with temporary content
I wish to create a directory in $TMP_DIR or /tmp/ which persists forever (i.e. is never deleted) but it is maintained by OS, i.e. the content of which can be deleted if they have not been opened/used in a while or system needs more…
user14492
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Shred files in tmpfiles.d
After searching the tmpfiles.d, its seems like there is a limited number of option to erase the files/directories.
I want to totally erase the temporary directories with a shred like command, is there a way to trigger a script in the tmpfiles.d…
Jaay
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How to set up /var/tmp
This is a very stupid question but how can we set up /var/tmp? Is there a special way to do it or will just creating the directory suffice?
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MX-21 /tmp directory empty on reboot
I am using MX-21 and my /tmp directory is getting purged on every reboot. I would like to keep my /tmp for a week, so after some searching the web I modified the /etc/tmpfiles.d/tmp.conf file and added this line
d /tmp 0755 root root 7d
and it's…
MX-User
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