This article isn't really about a feature, it's about a directory and its misuse. Furthermore it's an article about different default configurations, that lead to misunderstandings. This is a pretty old hat for experienced Solaris admins (many of them learned it the hard tour), but it seems to be totally unknown to many admins new to the business or for people switching from Linux to Solaris, as many distribution are configured in a different way per default. A reader of my blog just found a 2GB .iso in /tmp on a Solaris system and that's not really a good idea. A few days ago, a user in twitter had vast problems with memory usage on a system which boiled down to a crowed /tmp.
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