Clean up / filesystem

[Caleb Stein]

On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 15:16:11 -0700, Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:

> On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:40:20 -0700, Caleb Stein <caleb.stein at me.com>  
> wrote:
>> Ok, so it won't hurt X as long as I clear /tmp/ while X isn't running?
>
> Correct, no problem.
>
> It *may* be possible that some programs save files to /tmp, even
> if it is NOT to be assumed that those files survive a reboot.
> The content of /tmp is to be seen as easily flammable. :-)
>
> X itself does use /tmp mainly for /tmp/.X0-lock as well as the
> /tmp/.font-unix/, /tmp/.X11-unix/, /tmp/.ICE-unix/, /tmp/.XIM-unix/
> and other subtrees that get generated anyway when not present
> at X startup.
>
> Make sure *YOU* don't have any important files in there. :-)
>
>
>

Ok, thanks for the info.  I've added clear_tmp_enable="YES" to rc.conf, so  
hopefully, after a reboot, I'll stop seeing the annoying message.