Against /Tmp

Things goes along with the author's "tmp cleanup" section, but I have lost valuable work on a number of occasions from hacking on random files that I created in /tmp under the assumption that they were throwaway junk files, only to reboot my machine a few hours later and have them automatically deleted by the OS. It's much safer and just as easy to use a "$HOME/tmp" dir as a junk drawer and then manually clean it up from time to time.

Pro* tip: don't put your mSQL database file on /tmp on a Solaris box.

Because at some point a few months later people will say "where did the database go?" and you'll have a lot of explaining and reconstruction to do.

(mid 90s)

I think this one was in the "Unix admin horror stories"