On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com> wrote: > Am 10.12.2012 um 18:01 schrieb Rudi Ahlers: >> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 6:58 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > > i would suggest another point of view - what should use tmp? > Users, Admins speak humans or scripts, apps speak machines? > It's for whatever you like to use it for that you don't mind losing. I sometimes put packages there that I am going to install, sometimes script temporary files, sometimes data files I want to look at, eg chunks of log files. Some packages (eg Apache Tomcat) seem to use it too. I've used it for script generated scripts too. Cheers, Cliff