Hi,
It is understood that the contents of /tmp directory will be deleted at reboot.
Is there any way to configure such that /tmp contents wont be deleted at reboot?
OR
Can I make another directory, say temp as the default temporary directory?
Please have your valuable reply.
Ashraf
There is a separate /var/tmp directory which is intended to be the alternate /tmp for stuff that needs to hang around across reboots.
The simplest solution is to simply modify your application to use that.
If you really need to make /tmp persistent then you need to edit /etc/vfstab and make /tmp
something other than a tmpfs filesystem.
If you just comment out the line, /tmp will end being a directory on /.
But if you need more space than that, then you can mount a separate filesystem there.
I just tried it commenting it out and while /tmp was no longer a tmpfs file system, it still didnt work.
There must be a startup script deleting everything in that directory.
I found /etc/rc2.d/S05RMTMPFILES on solaris 9.
Presumably theres a svcadm job that does the same thing on solaris 10.
You'd have to disable those.
If you want to change it to ufs, you can't just change tmpfs to ufs.
Since thats trying to use swap as the disk space.
You need to change it to look more like the / line.
But with whatever disk you want to use instead of whatever / is using.
Halo,
OS is Solaris 10
Though I changed /tmp line in vfstab just as that of / , system goes to maintanence mode.
I want the contents of /tmp retained as long as a big application installation finishes even if the system reboots. Once the installation is over, I dont want to retain the /tmp contents.
Ashraf.
