Re: Best Practice Question

Hello Jim,

Am 20.08.2025 um 23:01 schrieb Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Um, maybe not “best practice “

Does any other application or LPP use /tmp? At least some of the LPPs use it. If lost you’ll loose several flight recorder type logs etc.

Keep recovery in mind with these things. If you know nothing in there is needed for forensic use OK, but be sure.

If any application places indispensable data in /tmp, I'd consider this a program error.

If a user places indispensable data in /tmp, this is as plain stupid as those users using the macOS or Windows Trashcan as "sort me later" temporary storage.

/tmp sounds like "temp" for a reason. :-)

One could debate the expendability of flight recorder type logs. From my PoV, those should not be created in /tmp, because they are logs and hence belong to /var/log, with a proper automatism to expire old entries. And we're back to a program error.

My $.02.

:wq! PoC