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.