Verily did "Kevin P. Neal" write:

>>Personally, I (a) torch the clean-/tmp-on-reboot code in /etc/rc*, and
>>(b) make /usr/tmp and /var/tmp symlinks to /tmp.  Oh, and (c) set up a
>>cronjob to clean out /tmp periodically.

> Hmmm, I'd be pretty upset if I was in the middle of something at some odd
> hour, like high noon or 4 in the morning, and /tmp went away.

I've seen this.  The cronjob nukes files in /tmp that are over x hrs old
(what I saw had x defined to be 24).  If you wanted to be creative, have
the cronjob nuke empty directories owned by users (those with a userid
> 1000 for example) afterwards.

If you want to tighten things up, just decrement x and decrease the time-
interval on the conjob.

I leave the 'clean-/tmp-on-reboot' code in since my /tmp is mfs anyway.
*shrug*

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