Today's Hard-Learned UNIX Lesson

[bjarvis]

If you place incredibly important data files in /tmp, don't be surprised when your data isn't there when you return two weeks later.

Thank you and good night.

Comments

[snowboardjoe.livejournal.com]

Bitten by the job that cleans up /tmp or was this Solaris where /tmp is mounted on top of swap allowing your data to go "poof!" when you reboot?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

The latter, and the servers has been through two reboot cycles since the data was placed there.

[cmhcub4u.livejournal.com]

I have several users that insist on using "deleted items" in Outlook for storing all their emails. Even when they have lost stuff, they continue to do it.

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Please tell me it wasn't you who had placed the incredibly important data files in /tmp.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Ack, never! If I have incredibly valuable data which would affect the well-being of the planet, I'd be sure to place it somewhere more secure, like /var/tmp. :-)

[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

you mean /tmp doesn't stand for "things marked permanent" ??

i hav mad l33t computer skillz i dont believe you !!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Don't laugh... I met someone a while ago who stored docs in the Recycle bin because she occasionally re-used them as templates for new documents. *sigh*

[apparentparadox]

Everybody knows you should use /usr/tmp for permanent temporary stuff!

[moofedct.livejournal.com]

oh hai I deeleeted ur filez.

kthxbye.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Can you delete my mortgage too? Please?

[moofedct.livejournal.com]

Princess kittie doesn't know what mortgage is!

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

It's amazing how some people just don't get it, do they?

*thank* you.

[capy.livejournal.com]

I had to explain this to an upper-management staffer just yesterday... Scary.