tmpwatch apparently not doing anything

[Tim]

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:15 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> For what it's worth, the following line in /etc/fstab seems to work
> for me...
> 
> none        /tmp          tmpfs defaults,nodev,noexec 0 0
> 
> What this means is that /tmp files get stored in virtual memory, not
> on a regular filesystem, and whenever the machine is rebooted the
> whole /tmp filesystem is wiped.

I tried that for a while, but my system only has 256 megs of RAM, so
don't know if it's a good idea.  It's certainly not when it comes to DVD
burning via Nautilus (it uses /tmp for the ISO image).

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