Putting /tmp on a separate volume?

[Gerard Seibert]

Oliver Iberien wrote:

> On Saturday 22 April 2006 05:00, freebsd-questions-request at freebsd.org wrote:
> > But before you do that try setting
> >
> >   clear_tmp_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf
> >
> > and
> >
> >  daily_clean_tmps_enable="YES" in /etc/periodic.conf
> 
> Thanks -- I am certainly going to try this. I didn't have 
> an /etc/periodic.conf file, so I created one, and added the lines suggested 
> in the periodic man page. So, now I have:
> 
> daily_output=/var/log/daily.log
> weekly_output=/var/log/weekly.log
> monthly_output=/var/log/monthly.log
> daily_show_success=NO
> daily_show_info=NO
> daily_show_badconfig=NO
> daily_clean_tmps_enable="YES"
> 
> Oliver

I think you are suppose to copy the /etc/defaults/periodic.conf file to
/etc/periodic.conf and edit that file. Perhaps someone else might have
better information though.


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Gerard Seibert
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